Rise & Return: What to Feel During the Shofar Blasts

Hi, I'm Arammy Glazer and this is Cole Gula. Shul is quiet. The chauffeur is in the air. And maybe you're asking yourself, what should I feel right now? The chaar does two things at once. It wakes you up and it brings you home. Both are for you. Both are good. Kazal say it simply, wake up sleepers. and the Naven promise you go. A great chauffeer will blow on the day of gula. So if you felt both nervous and hope on Roshashana, that's normal. That's honest. Roshashana isn't just judgment day for humanity. It's a crowning. We choose Hashem again with love. Hashem says, Hashem says, "Crown me with the gentle promise running under it all. Hashem rises in judgment and comes down with mercy. So how should you listen to the shy this year? I want to give you four thoughts, one for each sound. Short on purpose and easy to remember. So the first one is tea, the steady note. Long, straight, and grounding. Feel under everything I'm still his. Hashem, I crown you. And then the second note is shavarim. Three broken sounds. Feel I'm cracked. I'm human. Let your light in through these cracks. No drama. No beating yourself up. Just truth with a little courage. The third sound. Terua the soabs. Feel. I miss being close. I want to come home. I'm reaching for you. If tears come, fine. If not, let your breath be the tear. Hashem hears both. And finally, we end up with tea gadilla. The long last note, the one that doesn't want to end. Feel I'm part of a bigger story. Picture gerilla coming and the doors opening and the light shining through. So this rashashana, remember, don't let the chauffeur scare you. Don't let the pain pull you down. Let kaduca pull you up and pull you in. When the tequia sounds, don't just ask what's wrong with me. Ask what greatness is calling me now. That one shift turns an alarm into a homecoming. So this year, walk into shul with this quick pocket map. Tea, I'm whole. I crown Hashem. Shivarim, I'm cracked and I'm still held. Toua, I'm crying and I'm coming home. Tequia, I'm part of Gula. May the sound of the cha shake loose what needs to go and lift up what needs to live. May we all have to a sweet year and a year of gula. Thanks for watching.