Remember friendships that have ended, love lost or left behind. Remember the times you have chosen convenience over conviction. Remember the times you have chosen freedom over commitment. Hebrew school can wait. Torah can wait.
Inner growth can wait.
The life of the spirit can always wait until we have the time. But it does not have to be this way. Because we have another chance. We can make another choice. One of the strangest laws in the Torah, from the middle of the book of Leviticus, concerns a woman who has just given birth.