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Yisro 5761Volume 21 · Issue 20
The Voice of Sinai
It requires us to remember the day as well as all that our eyes had seen, “And the entire people were seeing the sounds and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the mountain smoking” (Shemos 20:15).
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Vayishlach 5762Volume 22 · Issue 10
Key to Redemption
acquire the remnant of His people’ (Yeshayahu 11:11). ‘It will be, vehayah, on that day, the mountains will drip good sweet wine’ (Yoel 4:18). “It will be, vehayah, on that day, He will sound the great shofar’” (Yeshayahu 27:13).
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Emor 5762Volume 22 · Issue 26
Opened Gates
Their claim, “Why should we be deprived,” seems unfeasible. And why does it end with the Passover Offering? Let people claim how by absolute force of circumstance they were unable to hear the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, and let them be enabled to fulfill it a month later. The same could apply to Yom Kippur, to Sukkos, and to all mitzvos.
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Chukas 5762Volume 22 · Issue 31
Avenging the Insult
The Torah we have is called Rachmana, Merciful. Often in the Talmud, verses from the Torah are cited with the preface, “The Merciful said.” “Why is the shofar sounded? The Merciful said to sound it” (Rosh Hashanah 16a), “Anything the Merciful said not to do…” (Temurah 4b).
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Ki Seitzei 5762Volume 23 · Issue 2
Parallel Beginnings
The Creator indeed advised us how we could stand in judgment. “Recite before Me Verses of Kingship so that you may crown Me as King over you…, and with what, with the shofar” (Rosh Hashanah 16a).
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Ki Savo 5765Volume 2 · Issue 3
Forging the Bond of Life
Rosh Hashanah 16a), “God said…, “Recite before Me verses that depict My Kingship so that you will enthrone Me upon you, verses of Remembrance so that your remembrance will arise before Me for goodness, and with what, with the Shofar.””
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Pinchas 5767Volume 3 · Issue 38
Destruction of Being
…st on Yom Kippur, as it says (Vayikra 25:9-10), “On Yom Kippur, sound the shofar throughout your Land…, it shall be the Jubilee for you.” When Jubilee was in effect, it was an entire year of Yom Kippur. It is unclear…
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Vayeishev 5768Volume 4 · Issue 12
The Menorah: Radiating Inner Beauty
…time the Rambam writes this and with nearly the same wording. Concerning the shofar of Rosh Hashanah, he writes (Hilchos Teshuvah 3:4), “It contains an allusion, meaning, “Awake from your sleep you who sleep and arise from…
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Shemos 5768Volume 4 · Issue 16
World of Meaning
When we pray for redemption, we include all three aspects. We say, “Sound the great shofar for our freedom, and lift a banner to assemble our exiles, and speedily gather us together from the four corners of the earth,” meaning to a single place, and some actually add, “to our land.” Freedom contrasts enslavement, assembling contrasts
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Yisro 5768Volume 4 · Issue 20
Ultimate Reality
At the Event of Mount Sinai, “The entire people were seeing the sounds and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the mountain smoking (Shemos 20:15).” Rashi elaborates, “They were seeing that which is normally heard, which is impossible to see anywhere else, and the discussion is of the sounds that were emanating from the mouth of the Almighty.” Rashi is quoting from the sages (Mechilta Parshas BaChodesh chapter 9), who additionally state, “They
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Pekudei-Shekalim 5768Volume 4 · Issue 25
Atonement of the Soul
Species? There are multitudes of commandments and each of them should be announced at all times, and those commandments that are dependent on time, a month in advance. In this manner, there should be an announcement about matzo, about shofar, about reading the Megillah. Why is there more of a probability of forgetting the commandment of the half-shekel? The commandment is explicit in the Torah, and every young child studies it and knows it (Berachos 62b).
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Devarim 5768Volume 4 · Issue 41
Whisper of Hope
…ness, the banner, is raised upon the mountains, you will see, and when the Shofar is sounded, you will hear.” The concept of a miracle is similar to that of a banner that is hoisted high above the ground and seen…
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Miketz Chanukah 5769Volume 5 · Issue 11
Illumination of the Mind
…told (Yeshayahu 58:1), “Cry out from your throat, do not hold back—like the shofar, raise your voice,” and when they spoke, they were heard. Subsequent to the cessation of prophecy, however, it became necessary to…
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Vaeira 5769Volume 5 · Issue 15
Conditional Creation
Mount Sinai. There all of us saw and heard, and we were all prophets; the speech of the Creator was directed to us. “The entire people were seeing the sounds and the flames and the sound of the shofar and the mountain smoking (Shemos 20:15).” For this reason, everything is built only on the Event of Mount Sinai.
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Bamidbar 5769Volume 5 · Issue 26
The Commandment of Shavuos
Our focus is to discover the commandment of the day associated with the Festival of Shavuos. Rosh Hashanah obligates the sounding of the shofar, Yom Kippur obligates fasting, Sukkos obligates the Sukkah and Lulav, Passover obligates the burning of leaven and the eating of matzo. What does Shavuos obligate? What is incumbent upon us on the day that we received the Torah?
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Vayeira 5769Volume 5 · Issue 6
Unifying Speech
…eshayahu 58:1), “Call out from your throat, do not hold back; like the shofar, raise your voice.” Human speech emanates from the throat but speech that connects heaven and earth emanates from the neck. To allude…
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Behar-Bechukosai 5770Volume 6 · Issue 26
Foundation of the Year
that the rains of the year would be blessed. On Rosh Hashanah, all inhabitants of earth pass before Him individually and they are judged on their very lives, and He commanded us to recite verses of Kingship, Remembrance, and Shofar, to prevail in judgment.
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Mishpatim 5771Volume 7 · Issue 19
Guardians of Sinai
One can rely on this ruling in practice, when there are other sounds during the sounding of the shofar, the recital of Kiddush, or the Torah or Megillah reading. One who cherishes these sounds and listens to them is not disturbed by the other sounds. Only, one knows whether one is truly hearing.
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Pinchas 5771Volume 7 · Issue 36
Plea of the Pauper
mercy. Anyone who has ever studied is familiar with the frequently used expression, “Mercy said,” as a preface to the citation of a verse. Of positive commandment, the Talmud states, for example (Rosh Hashanah 16a), “Mercy said, “Sound the shofar,” and of negative commandments, it states (Temurah 4b), “Any matter that mercy said not to perform….”
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Masei 5771Volume 7 · Issue 38
Shattered and Scattered
We pray, “Sound the great shofar for our freedom,” meaning that we not be enslaved. “And raise a banner to gather our exiles,” meaning that we not be dispersed. “And gather us together from the four corners of the earth,” to which Nusach Sefard adds, “unto our land,” meaning
