The Real Secret Behind the Shofar - Rabbi Ori Strum

Different sounds that we hear elicit different feelings and reactions. The sound of a flowing stream might make you feel relaxed. The sound of someone scratching their nails against a chalkboard might make you shake bitterly to your core. But there's a very [music] satisfying sound that is pretty much universal. It's the sound of the opening of a can of tennis balls when you open this. Oh, it's such a satisfying feeling. Why? Because there's a tremendous amount of pressurized air that's [music] being released. And that release of pressurized air is satisfying for the human psyche. Why [music] is that? Because something that's pressurized, that's something that's stuck and locked in, when that gets [music] released, it elicits feelings of joy and liberation. If you think about it, it's true about our lives in general. Life is [music] filled with so much pressure. There's pressure to perform, pressure to get married, pressure to have a job, pressure to raise a family, pressure to get into this seminary or that yeshiva, pressure to be learning and dabbing, pressure to have our sudarm, pressure to be the best that we can be. It's only natural that there's a tremendous amount of pressurized air that we accumulate [music] over the course of our lives. But comes along, lol. What do we do? We make a sound. We blow the chauffeur. The beautiful sound of air being released. It's a reminder for us to relax a little bit, but to relax in the sense that Hashem, the melik, is in the fields. He's closer than ever before. The sound of the chauffeur is a reminder for us to let go, to release, and let God [music] into our lives. Realize that with everything going on in life, we've got this because he's got this. Because guess what? The more we let him in, the more pressure will be released and the more joy and satisfaction we will have in