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Haazinu 5757Volume 18 · Issue 5
Days of Repentance
Of Rosh Hashanah, it says (Tehillim 81:4), “Sound the shofar at the origination of the moon, which is concealed for our festive day.” As the Talmud states (Rosh Hashanah 8a), “By which festival is the moon concealed, it must be Rosh Hashanah.” All other festivals occur later in the month
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Mishpatim 5765Volume 1 · Issue 4
The Torch of Sinai
describes the sounds that accompanied the Giving of the Torah. “It was on the third day when it was the morning and there were sounds and lightning, and a heavy cloud upon the mountain, and the sound of the shofar was very strong, and all the people in the camp trembled” (Shemos 19:16).
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Devarim 5761Volume 21 · Issue 37
Gates of Tears
At its roots, all the concepts of reproof are sourced in the Event of Mount Sinai (Shemos 20:15-17). “And all the people were seeing the sounds and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the Mountain smoking. The people saw and quaked, and they stood from afar. They said to Moshe, “You speak to us and we will hear, and let not the Lord speak to us lest we die.”
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Ki Seitzei 5761Volume 22 · Issue 2
My Twin
This is stated openly. It is in fact why the shofar is sounded from the beginning of Elul. As the Tur states (chapter 581), “A shofar was sounded in the encampment, ‘Moshe ascended to the Mountain,’ so that the people would not stray again after idolatry.”
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Behar-Bechukosai 5766Volume 2 · Issue 28
Pursuit of Destiny
Count for yourself seven cycles of Sabbatical years—seven years seven times; the years of the seven cycles of Sabbatical years shall be for you forty-nine years. Then,” in the fiftieth year, “sound a staccato blast from the shofar—in the seventh month…” (Vayikra 25:8-9).
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Vayelech 5766Volume 2 · Issue 5
Yom Kippur: Rebirth Through Torah
which we are judged for life and death, but the Creator gave us the power to cause Him to rise from the Throne of Judgment and sit on the Throne of Mercy by blowing the shofar and by reciting the verses of Kingship, Remembrance, and Shofar. In this fashion, the Creator judges us with mercy.
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Devarim 5767Volume 3 · Issue 39
Path to Repentance
…ears shall be for you forty-nine years, and you shall sound a blast of the shofar in the seventh month on the tenth of the month. On Yom Kippur, you shall sound the shofar throughout your land. You shall sanctify the…
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Miketz Chanukah 5768Volume 4 · Issue 13
Commandment of Light
Torah, and He gave to us commandments. Of this, we say in our Evening Prayers, “Torah and commandments… You have taught us.” Likewise, we say in the Musaf Prayer of Rosh Hashanah, by the verses of Shofar, “When You revealed Yourself, our King, upon Mount Sinai, to teach Your people Torah and commandments.”
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Vayishlach 5771Volume 7 · Issue 11
Indomitable Nation
We are people of faith descendant of people of faith, children of Yaakov Avinu. The very same Eliyahu HaNavi will one day come and bring us great tidings as well. “It shall be on that day, a great shofar shall be sounded, and those who are lost in the Land of Assyria and those who are dispersed in the Land of Egypt shall come and bow to God at the holy Mountain in Jerusalem” (Yeshayahu
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Ki Savo 5770Volume 7 · Issue 3
Yearning for Perfection
One part of the Zohar, called Ra’aya Mehemna, primarily explains the underlying concepts of the commandments. In this part (3:99b), there is a fascinating passage regarding the commandment of the shofar, which appears in most prayer books prior to the sounding of the shofar.
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Behar 5772Volume 8 · Issue 27
Return to Self
Torah. The second is Yom Kippur, when we received the Second Tablets. It too has the sanctity of the Jubilee, as it says in the portion (Vayikra 25:9; Rosh Hashanah 8b), “On Yom Kippur, you shall sound the shofar throughout your Land.”
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Miketz Chanukah 5765Volume 10 · Issue 12
The Hidden Light
from here the great principle that the sages have the power to uproot a thing from the Torah when they find it imperative based on their logic (Yevamos 89b). They can decree that it is forbidden to sound the shofar on the Sabbath for all generations lest on one occasion someone carries it in a public domain (Rosh Hashanah 29b). This is the power of the sages, and they implement it where they deem necessary.
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Ki Savo 5773Volume 10 · Issue 3
Refinement of Character
mention sin, and we do not recite the forged covenant of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy. What then can we do—understandably aside from what the Torah tells us regarding the verses of Kingship, remembrance, and shofar (Rosh Hashanah 16a)? What will bring upon us the Attribute of Mercy for which the Creator rises from the Throne of Justice and presides on the Throne of Mercy (Medrash Tehillim chapter 47; Yalkut Shimoni chapter 754)?
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Mishpatim-Shekalim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 17
Integral Dimension
announce on the fifteenth of Elul regarding the Four Species? They cost far more. We are obligated in many commandments, yet none of them are announced a month before. The only ones are the sounding of the Shofar in Tishri and the shekels of Nisan.
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Naso 5775Volume 11 · Issue 25
Honor of the Torah
Shavuos, we committed to the sounds that go forth from Mount Horeb. These sounds are entirely about the honor of the Torah. “And all the people were seeing the sounds and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the smoking Mountain, and the people saw and they moved and they stood from afar” (Shemos 20:15). These were movements of honor.
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Devarim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 31
Festival of Destiny
that we recite in the Musaf Prayer of Rosh Hashanah (Yeshayahu 18:3), “All inhabitants of the world and dwellers of the earth—when the neiss, the banner, is raised upon the mountains, you will see, and when the shofar is sounded, you will hear.”
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Vayigash 5752Volume 12 · Issue 13
Centrifugal Force
allow them to influence us, and we place ourselves under their dominion, they spew us out—until we require the attribute of the One Who gathers the dispersed of His Nation. “It shall be on that day a great shofar shall be sounded…, and those driven out in the Land of Egypt shall come, and they shall bow to God in the holy mountain at Jerusalem” (Yeshayahu 27:13).
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Vayeitzei 5747Volume 13 · Issue 11
Clothed in Action
The Ultimate Redemption is promised to us and the way it will arrive is by the revelation of a new voice in the world. “It shall be on that day a great shofar shall be sounded” (Yeshayahu 27:13). In other words, a voice will be heard, a voice with the power of speech, a voice with the power of leadership and governance. And as the verse continues, it will lead, “And those
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Vayigash 5751Volume 13 · Issue 15
Permanence Within Change
Mitzvah is gradational. When the course ends, the mitzvah ends. “Once the shofar is sounded, they may ascend the Mountain” (Shemos 19:13). Torah, however, is never erased. It can never be eliminated and it never perishes. Even its accessories retain their holiness forever. They must be placed in concealment. On the same
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Ki Savo 5758Volume 13 · Issue 3
Of Circles and Lines
crown God as King. “Recite before Me verses of Kingship to crown Me as King over you” (Rosh Hashanah 16a). Rabbeinu Saadiah Gaon cites this as the first of ten reasons for sounding the shofar, just as it was customary by the crowning of kings.
