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Shoftim 5756Volume 18 · Issue 1
Understanding Through Error
Rosh Chodesh Elul, God had said to Moshe,” after the Sin of the Golden Calf for which the First Tablets were shattered, ““Ascend the Mountain to Me,” for that was when he ascended to receive the Second Tablets. The shofar was sounded throughout the encampment, “Moshe has ascended the Mountain,” so they would not err again after idolatry….”
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Rosh Hashanah 5749Volume 14 · Issue 4
Breath of Life
The passage continues: “And recite before Me on Rosh Hashanah Verses of Kingship, Verses of Remembrance, and Verses of Shofar.” Clearly, this too brings remedy in the same manner as the others. Just as the Omer Offering on Passover, the Two Breads on Shavuos, and the Water Pouring on Sukkos, remedy what needs rectification—what is being judged—on each
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Ki Seitzei 5760Volume 21 · Issue 2
Wisdom Not Work
Shofar of Elul
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Vayelech 5755Volume 13 · Issue 4
Enflaming the Embers
Its only remaining element is the sound of the shofar. By the Event of Mount Sinai, it says (Shemos 19:16-19), “It was on the third day as it was becoming the morning and there was thunder and lightning and a heavy cloud upon the mountain, and the sound
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Nitzavim 5754Volume 17 · Issue 3
Voice of the Soul
“God said, “Recite before Me on Rosh Hashanah verses of Kingship, Remembrance, and Shofar. The verses of Kingship are so that you may crown Me as King over you. The verses of Remembrance are so that your remembrance may arise before Me for goodness. And with what? With the shofar”” (Rosh Hashanah 16a).
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Ki Seitzei 5759Volume 20 · Issue 2
Avoiding Past Mistakes
Sounding the Shofar
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Rosh Hashanah 5761Volume 21 · Issue 5
Day of Remembrance
The sages cite the verse, “The Lord ascended with the blast, God with the sound of the shofar,” and comment (Tehillim 47:6; Vayikra Rabbah 29:3).
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Behar-Bechukosai 5747Volume 13 · Issue 30
Counting to the Uncountable
…Sabbatical years shall be for you forty-nine years. Then, you shall sound the shofar of blowing in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month. On Yom Kippur, you shall sound the shofar throughout your land. Thereby, you…
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Rosh Hashanah 5757Volume 18 · Issue 4
Mercy in Judgment
institute any prayer for mercy. For what then can we pray? There is only one single prayer—and this is what the Men of the Great Assembly instituted. We can only recite the Verses of Kingship, Remembrance, and Shofar.
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Ki Seitzei 5767Volume 4 · Issue 2
Binding Deed and Thought
Our masters ordained the sounding of the shofar throughout the month, and, as the Tur states (Orach Chayim 581), this custom derives from the sages (Pirkei D’Rebbi Eliezer chapter 46), who state, “On Rosh Chodesh Elul…, they sounded the shofar in the encampment, which declared: Moshe ascended
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Shoftim 5771Volume 8 · Issue 1
Destiny of the Year
The Tur, at the beginning of the Laws of Rosh Hashanah, cites from the sages that when Moshe Rabbeinu ascended the Mountain on Rosh Chodesh Elul, the shofar was sounded throughout the encampments so that the people would no longer stray after idolatry. Thus, it was instituted that the shofar be sounded each year on Rosh Chodesh Elul and throughout the month—meaning to prevent any such error
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Nitzavim 5775Volume 12 · Issue 4
Wondrous Gift
…be a cessation of work for you, a remembrance through the sounding of the shofar, a call for sanctity.”” The Ramban writes, “But the Torah did not explain the reason for this commandment, why the sounding of the…
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Naso 5772Volume 8 · Issue 30
Complementary Week
…r and lightning and a heavy cloud upon the Mountain, and the sound of a shofar was very strong, and the entire nation that was in the encampment trembled….” In continuation (v.19): “The sound of the shofar went and…
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Mishpatim 5752Volume 15 · Issue 20
Rational Decision
This derives from the verse (Tehillim 81:5), “Sound the shofar at the renewal of the moon, which is concealed for our festive day, because it is a law for Israel, a judgment for the Lord of Yaakov.” The Talmud explains, “Since the verse calls it judgment, it must be carried
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Rosh Hashanah 5759Volume 20 · Issue 5
Festival of the Covered Moon
The Divine Service—the holiness—of the day is the sounding of the shofar. Rosh Hashanah is called, “The day of the shofar,” or when it coincides with the Sabbath, “The day of the shofar’s remembrance” (cf. Vayikra 23:24; Bamidbar 29:1).
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Behar-Bechukosai 5762Volume 22 · Issue 27
Continuity and Change
Shofar of the Future
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Ki Seitzei 5768Volume 5 · Issue 2
Converging Paths
One course is what the Tur states in his preface to the laws of Rosh Hashanah—to sound the shofar throughout the Month of Elul, which remains the only custom of this month according to the Ashkenazim, and to rise early and recite the prayers of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, according to the Sephardim (Orach Chayim 581). He explains that
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Ki Savo 5775Volume 12 · Issue 3
One With Torah
Sounding the Shofar
