"You shall love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul and all your might.  Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.  Impress them upon your children.  Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up."  Devarim 5-7

A lovely week in the Gorge area in Oregon - peaceful farmhouse, ten acres, blackberry picking, a milky-way filled sky sound tracked by crickets.  Idyllic by all standards for a family vacation except for the river-rafting scheduled for the middle of the week.  Class III-IV rapids complete with website pictures chalked up a guaranteed morning of anxiety for two parents ahead of the rafting.  The word "might" would have a new meaning by the end of the day as we would seek to stay in the raft on the path of the river.  By the same measure, Moshe's prescription for going down the river of life would provoke many of the same feelings of fear and apprehension in the Children of Israel as they would embark on their new life.  However, it is that yirah, fear or awe, that would be pivotal in not only helping them but also our family as well from floating down the river outside of the raft.