So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God — the tzitzit section reaches its double climax in the dual verbs remember and do, which together define the relationship between memory and obedience in the Mosaic covenant. Remembering without doing is incomplete; doing without remembering produces an obedience disconnected from the covenant relationship that generated it. The phrase be holy to your God (qedoshim lihyotekhem le'eloheikhem) echoes the Holiness Code's refrain in Leviticus 19-20: you shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy. The holiness called for is not merely ritual separation but moral conformity to the character of the God who called Israel out of Egypt for this purpose — the tzitzit thus connects everyday garment-wearing to the cosmic vocation of a people set apart.

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