The Cry of the Shofar and 100 blasts by Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

[Music] the today is a bit of a continuation of last week although hopefully I'll see somebody new attacked me to remember because I'm speaking in a lot of places so occasionally I do wind up repeating but you know last week we spoke about the idea that Rosh Hashanah in some ways you might call as a schizophrenic day in the sense that on one hand it's the Omaha dim it's the day of judgment and there's a lot of fear and trepidation the most famous prayer of Yemen no rhyme is probably the prayer in the sauna toka which is right before the Musa and the sonnet opieop really encapsulate s' the moon of fear and trepidation that even the angels in heaven quake can shake as God opens up the books of judgments as who will live and it will die and there's a very detailed statement we will live who will die who will fill their allotted time who will not fill their by the time who will have tranquility who will have suffering who will perish by earthquake and by fire and by water and by strangulation and there's really a sense of despair a sense of fear a sense of terror but what's interesting is even in the PIAT itself again reviewing a little bit like it is nothing new even in the PIAT itself there is a change of mood meaning within the desperation of the peals there Springs the message of hope that Shuba to feel Otsuka repentance and prayer and charity they can cancel the decree and although we are nothing we are like a dream we are like a broken piece of pottery but God is eternal and God's love is eternal and therefore we have hope and we don't despair because we believe that a college worker who wants us to be much Lia so it's and they said you know even if one follows even the way of cause I'm an experienced cousin sings the sonnet okay it actually he actually moves between different different musical modalities the part that talks about the fear of the Day of Judgment is in a minor key more of a scary type of thing or sneeze too somber type of thing and then the end which is still Masonic subject is it a major in fact they're famous Constitution Hakuna Matata very very happy and jaunty I even saw a YouTube I don't know how they filmed this muscles of practice in Oman I don't know how they doing YouTube Russia under service in the money but and it doesn't look like the practice because they have like hundreds and hundreds of people there I think at a guy in there make allotment but when they were singing the end of nisonger Tokyo there was no end to God's well you know God's ears lived forever and he loves us so it seemed like I didn't listen to the whole 15 minutes but it seemed like it went on they just were singing and singing and jumping up and down for around fifteen or twenty or twenty minutes at least is that so even into the Senate if there's a shift of mood and restoration epic law is is schizophrenic in the sense that we go back and forth between seriousness and joy after all unlike Yom Kippur Rosh Hashanah you have a meal right British I know you are supposed to rejoice it's a young different the same time we know this from the Tanakh itself when the Jews came back from the Babylonian exile the Shabbat see young in the book of Ezra and cambia so they felt they wanted to fast the first Russia shiner they were in the Land of Israel because they thought that God had rejected them and even when they started to build a mix - it got discontinued and what did mr. me and Ezra tell them do not mourn and do not cry this is a day that is holy to garden the joy you have in the jsm has in you is going to be your source of strength so roshani it's a hard day to put your your finger on now we know of course that the central myth mitzvot Rosh Hashana is that it's a day of blowing the shofar you blow the shofar and the Torah actually only requires that the show for beat alone actually the way that works is you blow the takea which is a long sound then you blow a truer which is a broken sound and it takea and you blow it three times so that's not I mean we although a true is like nine staccato blasts when counted as one so really Takia true with the key of three times well you start off with nine it turns into thirty I'll explain why would you start off with nine the Victoria's requirement is nine now the nine morphs to 30 for the following reason there was uncertainty in the course of time what is the crying sound of the true and there were three options one is the crying sound which the Torah calls true is what we call chiavari on which is like moaning to that Shoreham others say the truest sound is what we call true a whimpering and others say it's the Shiva rim other true groaning and then whimpering so because of these three different alternatives you got to do three times each so you got to do three - Kia shove RM true up - Kia and since that's really for sounds that gives you twelve then two Kia Schwar I'm takiyah three times which is nine and two Kia true at the Kia three times that is also nine so twelve nine and nine is 30 so the Torah really requires nine and because of this uncertainty it became 30 and really 30 is how you're yo say the mitzvah somebody could can't go to Sheol or whatever it is and we arrange a separate chauffeur blowing we blow 30 and again it's good to know the notation here three - rats three tyre shots and three tie rats these are abbreviations three - Rhett takea shivoham now the rage stands for truer even though truer begins with the tough but since that's the same letter as takea we use the second letter so three touch rats three touch shots the key issue warm skin three tie rocks Takia true up to kiya dad adds up to 30 and 30 is how you are yo say the Mitzvah yeah we do know however that there's a minute among most of call we sell not everybody not everybody to this day not everybody but most of how israel including us seen inspired image and modem the overwhelming majority of Ashkenazim that we blow chauffeuring Rosh Hashanah a total of 100 times not just 30 we blow it a hundred times some blow 101 times for reasons out I'll explain and the Makar the source of blowing show for a hundred times is from an interesting source a toast sauce in Rosh Hashanah brings it in the name of rabbi not son bow or woo ha who is revving us and Belarus he lived in Rome and he compiles you wouldn't look at him as a heretic Authority in and of himself but he was he compiled what you might call the first Jastrow right you know the jasper dictionary now it with our school was like maybe people use the jestro less with the Jastrow is a dictionary still use of the eye Romaic words that appear in the Talmud and the Midrash so for countless generations of the Shiva students and then Diwali toobut cetera if we had words in big Amara that we didn't understand we would look up the Jastrow and we and the extra bonuses occasionally gastro not only told you the word but he actually quotes the passage of the Talmud and gives you like you know the translation of the line so you actually might get the whole line there as well now jacksters industrials reformed rabbi actually so there are some zealots that say you're not allowed to use the Jastrow dictionary because he was required but nevertheless dictionary is pretty good but the first Talmudic dictionary was written in the 11th century by a Rishon somebody before washing and this was rubbing our son and that Talmudic dictionary code is written in hebrew is called SE faire haruka the organised safer but what's interesting is that grabbing us and Belarus is not only a person who defines terms but he will give you the shock he will give you the explanation of the kamara and often give you how waka so the whole source of the hundreds colos on rosh hashanah now he didn't invent it obviously he was terrifying a min hug that already existed but it's from rubbing nuts and bellow over and he gives a very interesting reason why don't we blow a hundred sounds of shofar and rosh hashanah all you need is 39 and then because of the doubt 30 so he says it is to countermand the 100 cries of sisters mother now who is sister sister it was a midnight general who was fighting against the Jewish people he killed many many Jews over a long period of time and eventually his army was defeated by Devorah Dobara and the BIA and when sister abandoned his army he sought a refuge that destroyed the shell is very significant in by a woman who was Yael like this is a phobia al Bayt janessa pol and Yael got him drunk on fermented milk so watch that milk that milk can really get you and as he fell into a deep sleep she hits a penitent stake through his temple and he died and that brought a great great salvation Jewish people now as a result of that salvation devourer then composed a very lengthy song of praise to Hashem Shiraz Devorah this is parrot khalid of the book o choked him and in shiraz devar 'she mockingly refers to how sisters mother was waiting for her son to come back and it uses the phrase but the i beiieve a misra she was crying although it's interesting she wasn't crying because she loved her son she was actually crying because where is he where is all the jewellery he's going to bring me where are all these spoils of war and as i'll have a tradition that the word that is used for crying is bhakti Abed now when the Torah describes the chauffeur blowing as true I the targa monk allah says surah is yet bhava crying but since the bhava is a term that is used with some variation which instructed sisters mother it was seen now this is not in the commodities of the post on Munna crash in a way it was seeing that there's some connection between chauffeured blowing and sisters mother and just as sisters mother cried a hundred sobs this is the tradition so we blow the show for 102 now obviously it's a very enigmatic connection and what does one have to do with the other sisters mother is very long gone and anyway what what what what what would the chauffeur have to do with the mother of with the mother of sister so here I just want to give you two very quick explanation as to what the connection is going to be young that seems to be a mastaba there is no particular proof for that says she cried because I'll say she cried under 13 I'm not even sure what a hundred I'm not even sure what a hunt that would crying 100 times actually means it doesn't make me the number of times she had failed I mean it's a touch it's hard to count Christ no I'm sure well I'm sure she yeah you'll see other words I'm gonna I'm gonna actually going to I'm going to actually address that and what's interesting is this I'll give me you a to attraction explanation number one is they thought that reps other develops in a number of places and she says that it is the nature of God to have compassion for human suffering and this is true even if those who are suffering are evil and may deserve the suffering but God's mercy is aroused by human suffering we see this for example by by the splitting of the Red Sea when although Hashem himself decreed that the Egyptians will be drowned by the water when the angels in heaven wanted to sing God's praises God said I do not want to be praised right now my sayad died my creations are drowning in the sea it is not a time for joy it is not a time for jubilation this is a very profound idea in Judaism and I have to say that to this day it affects the ethics of even our military the IDF you know unlike other armies and certainly unlike terrorists that rejoice in the wanton infliction of pain and suffering against their enemies the attitude of the idea of the attitude of our army has been we will do what needs to be done to be sure we are not passive it we do not turn the other cheek and Judaism says not to do that Judaism says a baal-dahar kaha someone is coming to kill you you kill them first but you don't glorify it you don't rejoice in it you don't get satisfaction in the suffering of others this is what's Lamar melisach Lamar Malik says in the book of Proverbs in the folly of echo to smile upon the downfall of your enemy you don't rejoice you do what you have to do but you don't rejoice and brush em I think that that's the case been preserved in the consciousness of the Jewish soldier and hopefully all of the Jewish people I'm on I've been at all but it should be that's in this very day now what that means though is that has a dangerous downside dangerous downside is human suffering awakens God's mercy but the problem is when God's mercy is directed to the undeserving evil doers it can mean that we get harmed as a result so when we talk about the hundred cries of sisters mother that's understood as a symbolic idea that when God exercises the power of justice against evildoers and that gives them pain and suffering their cries also go up to heaven the cries of a bereaved mother of a terror of a terrorist bomber goes up to heaven in some ways but that's danger for us because if a God shows mercy to the unworthy who will use it to perpetuate cruelty we will suffer so our blowing of the shofar is the cry of our hearts in which we're saying God yes yes I understand the sisters of the world and the mothers of the sisters and the mothers of the terrorists I understand that they suffer and I understand there's room in your heart so to speak for a certain amount of compassion but look at our suffering look at us we're your people so we're countermanding we're trying to defeat we're trying to bring to the almighty's attention whatever that exactly means that there's another side of the story that he has to look at and therefore we're counter manding the cries of a misra which is the prototype of the pain and suffering suffered by the unworthy when the recited didn't strike now there's a beautiful modification of this idea though that some have a tradition that sister his mother cried 101 times and we blow the show for a hundred to say that even she is entitled to one cried of God will hear the mercy of God should not be shut off entirely from those who suffer of course this interesting gets fired him do blow hundred and one times now either because they want to defeat sister's mother Lagaan vain or there's another reason is based on the Kabbalistic to Maitreya that me tal who said to be the guardian angel of the Jewish people and God's highest angel the gamma tree is a hundred and one so glowing 101 brings me 4l to be our intercessor and although once again the Rambam might find that very theologically difficult because the Rambam was very much against any type of supplication or any type of gesture directed to angels in fact there are people based on this Rambam who will not even say the third stanza of shovel Malaysia on Friday night the third stanza says to the Angels well honey bless me and there's a passage in sleekest that we say every day that has a long complicated history in which Moloch a rock I'm in angels of mercy you know ask mercy for the Almighty for us some you know you would think of it's just beautiful poetic imagery but it's very very controversial and some people will absolutely not say my looks I recommend my own position is that statements like that in sweet Rose are largely poetic so when you talk about an angel of mercy the inside what you mean an angel an angel isn't always a a thing like a person like thing sometimes an angel is simply a force for example you can call gravity an angel of God these are the forces through which God carries out his will so when I talk about angels of mercy I'm basically look I mean the Huckle Abraham Lincoln once said write what Abraham Lincoln said that talked about what the angels of our better selves not a famous I think that's you know they will address after the Civil War so when you talk about angels of mercy you're essentially saying those forces of mercy with which God will consider a favorable judgment so I wouldn't automatically consider it to be theological II suspect but nevertheless the blow show for in order to bring me close into the picture the Rambla might have some problem with but anyway keep in mind there as far as the Rambam was concerned there was no such thing as 100 sounds of the show per annum said 30 actually 60 did you do it again and listen but 60 in that that's all you all you needed to have so that's one explanation of the Eames Sisera that we are countering the rock I'm in possession would otherwise feel for the unworthy and for those who do evil in the world now the second explanation is I think Rob Sullivan chi-blockers then the mother of sister reminds us of a very interesting phenomenon you know a person gets into a certain habit that they respect their life is going to run a certain way and we don't necessarily have a sense that Russia China that everything is up for grabs everything is new Wednesday life was dis wedding Thursday learning event get you got an interruption of a three-day young to be a little crazy and then life goes on okay then but eventually like after Sukkot at least life you know life goes on and we tend to look at things as a content what is what it'll be cetera once in a while things happen but we don't really have a sense that life can change at a dime and part of the blowing the chauffeur's to remind us look at sisters mother and in fact her or her son was a well-known general who basically made a career of you know conquering nations and destroyed them and taking the spoils of war and she kind of just predicted you know she's waiting for him to come home she has her prediction he's supposed to be home five o'clock he's supposed to bring me the jewels and the clothes because this is what he always does this is the regularity of schedule life goes on and then as the clock is getting later and later and later and later she realizes that something radical has changed in the day-to-day rhythms of her existence and we blow the show for a hundred times to remind us of the possibilities of these radical changes now when I say radical changes I don't necessarily mean for the bad but the life changes life is challenging you know I mentioned last week while repeated again the the phrase that we recite after we blow the shofar in Mosul a young Haris alum which is always translated today is the birthday of the world now I cannot deny that there are we showing him that say that's the translation so I can't say it's wrong but it is seemingly not a carrot in an accurate translation in this way her ass is not a word that normally means birth her ass is a word that means conception hayri own pregnancy so some have suggested that her yamaha rasa love does not mean today is the birthday of the world which goes backwards that's historical but today is the conception of a new world it is future looking a new world is being conceived in that new world there are new opportunities I think I may have mentioned that the shame of oil crates faceva Rebbe said that that is why the ship Arnim true or the true or the Shorin is a combination of laughing and crying when a person is uh-uh that could be laughter it could be crying a person says I cried until I laughed until I cried but when you have a child sometimes the child gets crimes of yours if you're skilled in the art of parental manipulation you discover ways in which in the middle of the child's pride you can turn it into a laughing fit the kids get a change and they get distracted that's stuff like laughing in the middle of a middle of a crime sometimes they used to love this because etcetera sometimes they'll give you like fifteen seconds to check out you know but you're really doing something funny and they'll stop for like 15 seconds you know but if it's not if you're not cutting it they'll just go back there go back to crime but the point of laughing in crime is exactly this message you know what is the same the hell that I know it's more comfortable to know the exact wording what's kind of the known bad that I have is easier for me to deal with than the fear of the unknown so when you face a new year that's literally pregnant for us with all sorts of opportunities there is a combination of exhilaration and joy but also it's a little scary it's scary on the most basic level will God give us life in hell but it's scary on an existential level as well in the sense of will they take advantage of the opportunities in the world there is newness in the air some people welcome change they welcome the idea of new things happening other people get scared and most of us are kind of in-between it's exciting and wonderful but it's also a little scary whether it's a marriage or a new job or our yeah four people are coming to Israel etc these are new challenges they're not easy they are scary but they represent an ability to grow beyond the narrow confines that we are in to expand ourselves to become greater and that is kind of also why the even the judgment aspect of recession has a certain element of joy attached to it and this is what the hundreds sounds of the Shepherd micro present' meaning to say don't take the patterns of your life as a given things change and be ready to walk work with that church and to understand it alright so we have two different shutting what is the connection between the hundred sounds of the shofar and the cries of sisters mother one is we are contra manding the Divine Mercy that would be awaken even for the evil doers of the world and the other is just like the mother of sister learns don't take the pre-existing life you have as a given things can change on a dime person discovers all of a sudden that their life is very different than what they thought it would be now we know that in addition to the chauffeur blowing that we do before the Melissa we blow again during the Melissa some do it in the silent as well which is really kind of difficult if people are in different places in the silent others only do it in the repetition of the visa and we do it at three central points right the Musa vibrato sauna is a very unique Mona ezreal the shamone x-ray of every sharpest injunctive is only seven blessings the first three are the standard three same as always the last three are the standard and then in the middle you have a bra which is called kedusha seyoung the sanctity of the day about Shabbos about youngters and even on Rosh Hashanah for my wrist for chakras and mitzvot you have one central broker but for the Musa for professiona instead of one central Russia we have three central blessings and each of them has an identifiable theme the first of the middle three deals with Mario's God's kingship and sovereignty the second deals with Cicero knows God remembering the good deeds of our forefathers and the third deals with shofar hugs various verses dealing with the idea of shofar and with apologies to Charles Dickens who used this metaphor in a different non Jewish context there is show for pass show for present and show for future the first group of sukham chauffeured past recalls to us the shofar of the giving of the Torah then when Hashem gave the Turin heart c9 a shofar blast came out of heaven and the show forgot the louder the longer it was blow the last part of the chauffeur references are the shofar that will be blow when Messiah comes and when there's the resurrection of the Dead and the middle verses deal with show for present we blow the Shover meaning when we blow the show for today we are thinking both of the chauffeur past which includes the ram's horn of the it's clock and the chauffeur of math on Torah and we are also thinking of the chauffeur of redemption and mushiya entity essa Mason and we bring the past and the future together through what we're doing in the present so as you know after Mao Theo's we blow the shofar after the Chronos we blow the shofar in aftershow furless we blow the shofar that gives you another 30 because you blow one of each one touch rat one touch shot once arrived after mafia one same thing after the Chronos same thing after chauffeur's so first of all what is the nature of malice Acronis to show us why is it so important so there's a wonderful explanation a very basic explanation looks like a shot that is given by the vo safe elbow in the safe air are recorded here I need to give you a little introduction about this that is we know that the Rambam articulated thirteen principles of faith that a Jew must subscribe to and the Rambam took the position that if one denies any one of these thirteen principles of faith one is a heretic one is a not be chorus one is not a member of the faith community of Judaism you might be a Jew because you were born a Jew but you are not a follower see if a person believes in the agimo liquor but he does a lot of of arrows the Rambam says he is still following Jewish belief even though he's a sinner but if you deny the thirteen any one of the thirteen principles you are no longer following the belief system of Judaism now as you know one of the rom bombs thirteen principles is belief in the physical resurrection of the Dead physical resurrection and another one of his 13 principles is the belief in a machine so if I was a Jew kept the 613 mitzvot I kept all the mitzvot but let's assume I didn't believe in resurrection of the Dead or mushiya according to the random even if I kept all the 613 mitzvot I would be a heretic and possibly I would not have a share in the world to come unless I get children now around 200 years after the Rambam there was another great Jewish rabbi philosopher Rob Yosef Volvo and lived in Spain and Italy and he argued that the Rambam was including as a fundamental fundamental principle for things that are only derivative secondary principles and he said what the Rambam called acara which means a root of a tree is only an enough only a branch and revolve Oh said instead of there being thirteen principles of faith there is only three principles of faith that a person has to believe in what are the three principles of faith Mitsy attetion there is one God and created heaven and earth number two so far be honest reward and Punishment meaning God didn't just create the world as perhaps a deist might say but God is interested in human virtue and creates accountability and reward and number three the definition of good and evil is not left to individual subjectivity but there is revelation Torah was given at Mount Sinai now just to highlight the difference between revivals approach and the Ramblas approach let's take the exact xual examples of resurrection of the Dead and mushiya let's assume ami person who I don't believe that there's a need for a human mashiac or I don't believe there's need for physical resurrection because I believe that after a person died alone and I don't want to get to a trouble but but I believe that God taking care of my soul is all we need to establish divine justice and and reward and Punishment according to the Rambam that is a heretical belief and the person is a nappy colors according to reveals a Volvo as long as one believes that there's some ultimate redressing of reward and punishment the particular form it takes is a derivative secondary analysis and you might be mistaken meaning revolve o himself actually agreed with everything the Rambam said he did not disagree with the roundup but he said those are on earth in those are secondary principles and just because a person might be theologically mistaken is not the same as being theologically heretical people make mistakes all the time and this might be another mistake a person might make but it does not affect his membership so to speak in Chloe's room now in the modern kind of religious world or the ultra religious world that we live in that sounds almost heretical itself and you could imagine that some people if a rabbi came out today with the statement like Rob Yosef elbow made that rabbi might be criticized as a heretic in IP covers but in point of fact a Volvo safer was very very relevant very well-regarded widely studied and even his man event it is studied as a safe there of Jewish philosophy a part of his attraction is that he's a a much much much easier writer to read to read than the Rambam himself I mean the safer economies are much easier safer to work with so sometimes the people said it was some easier safer I'd rather learned that even if it's the galactically run and then for whatever it is but be it as it may Rivaldo then goes on and says and this is very key that the structure of mouthy OSA Chronos and show Fross is designed to mirror the three emunah malthael's God is my sovereign based on the fact that he exists number one and he is the creator of heaven and earth so I am affirming the existence of God zero knows what is - Chronos God remembers the good of the past that's the principle of reward and Punishment now it's equally true that God remembers evil as well but the kymaro says and Russia Shani we don't we don't bring that up so we kind of leave that to the side but the Chronos generally is all about safar the ownage and show for hugs the verses of shofar wrote at least ito reverses i'm matt time torah revelation what is the point of all this because russia Shara is not only a Yom of den rosh hashanah is a day of Coronation as God is recreating the world anew we stand before him to coronated like I think I've been I think I may have mentioned last week that there's an interesting much locust to Vilna Gaon in the iris ow what is the qivana that you have when we blow the shofar the iris I'll looks at blowing of the shofar as a summons to the heavenly Court so according to the Ariza shofar blowing is very scary okay it's our turn to stand before God the Vilna Gaon says the opposite shofar blowing is the joyous coronation of the king by the blowing of a trumpet and therefore the art of the Vilna God says the emotion of shofar blowing is joyous in truth both are correct it is joyous coronation as well as trepidation as we stand before God vigorous all vegek wants to say that maybe the tequilas before Moses are the summons to judgment at the kiosk during massage is the joyous coronation mouth when you coronate part of the process of combination is to affirm the values of what it means to be a citizen of God you know Israel does not have any type of test for a Jew that makes oh we have a law of return says every Jew can come here no no one's going to give you a tour test the only time you give a tour test and since it's actually kind of cute is all all security sometimes gives you a tour test I have always found it very cute when you have like you know a woman who is obviously not religious at all social so I got you know so what is the precious message what is the pressure touch a ruler that's part of their job book preparation and the like but to be a citizen there is no requirement you know in the United States to this day if you if you're an immigrant you do have to take some type of exam on the Constitution a basic exam and the like because to be a citizen if you're not by birth you need to know something in fact I just digress for a moment there's a very very cute story you know Einstein had a friend who was a great great mathematician may be the world's greatest mathematician now I'm not going to pronounce it right the name is spelled g o de l which sounds like gödel but it's pronounced something else kurt gödel was a absolutely brilliant person but Goodell had this thing where he was able to show that all mathematical systems are kind of self contradictory and therefore they're ultimately incoherent and he applied this to the Constitution when he studied the US Constitution he identifies some fundamental incoherence in the Constitution that would simply make it totally unworkable so Einstein advised him - there's no slouch in the brains Department either Einstein advised them you know I'm gonna take you to the judge please do not bring up your ideas to the judge you know doesn't look very good but what happened was go down couldn't constrain until the judge asked him a question about how the president was elected Goodell says well there's a fundamental contradiction there it's not going to work out the second so Einstein explained it the judge let him back but the point is you got to know something so when we coronate hashem we correlate by pledging allegiance to his sovereignty to the fact that he has accountability for our moral choices and revelation right so mouthy of the Khronos and chopra Arvin's back pledges of Allegiance as we proclaim the sovereignty of god and the Volvo says the tripartite division of mouthiest Acronis and sheriffs fits very well the 3e carbon and this start of revolver was actually quoted by a very very conservative graded but it's mostly conservative great rabbis of March are in Russia China who feels that this is exactly how we look at the structure but there's another aspect here Mao siesta Ferguson's chakras is both a pledge of allegiance but it's also a prayer in its own right when we proclaim a shame is melech we don't just proclaim a sham as mullah we also pray that may his mouth less be accepted in the whole world when we say the Khronos glad you remember the good we're not just saying it we then pray may you remember the merit of our chaos it's cooked which happens on Rosh Hashanah show for we talk about the chauffeur of mountain Torah but then we say may we be so cut the year the chauffeur of machine so mouth is upon us and show us itself us two aspects it is a pledge of allegiance and affirmation to what it means to serve God and it is a prayer for the real of the kingdom of heaven and for looking at us in a good way and for the coming of the redemption on the base of mikdash seen in this way the blowing of the shofar he's understood as part of that prayer after we recite the prayer of mouthiest may your kingship be recognized in the world the Chronos may you remember us in a good way show for us may you bring the Messiah we finish our prayer with the blowing of a show now why is that and in fact this is a well-known idea shofar is a non verbal prayer it is a prayer without words what is the significance of a prayer without words why do you need to augment a verbal prayer with a non verbal player so let's go back a little bit you tomorrow in Russia Shana talks about the different animal horns that can be used for a chauffeur doesn't have to be a rapture we used a ram's horn with hats gala because it car it correlates with that Cato teeth are aware that you know those huge chauffeurs are not ram's horn those are antelopes and the like so all sorts of animals are kosher for a show like the Rambam even says it doesn't even have to be a kosher animal interestingly enough all those rights they no I don't think we use moose horns or anything anything like that for a chauffeur but there's one horn that the Gomorrah said you cannot use and this is the most common animal evolved on mammal law you cannot use the horn of a cow or a bull can't use it so why not so there are there is more than one reason but but the reason that is brought down maharloka is that since a cow or a bull is there is reminiscent of the sin of the golden calf so when we plead to us them for mercy we don't want to use a vehicle of our sin in the expression of the Gomorrah ain't category gnosis an acre a prosecutor cannot be a defense attorney right and therefore the Phaedo eagle is a key truth a prosecution against us and the garage was an analogy to the service of Yom Kippur normally during the year even on Yom Kippur the calling guzzle wears garments that have gold thread in them but when he goes into the Kodesh ha kadosh him he does not wear those gold garments he only wears pure white garments because gold also is a reminder of the fate of ego now again you have to understand this it's not that God forgot about it and gonna be reminded but it's more in the nature of whisperer meaning ship knows one way or the other but you don't go and bring your sin and advertise it there that's an honest with us young it shows if you don't care about it that much yeah this is why to this very day know many people have a custom it's not add in that they will not wear gold jewelry whether it's a man wearing a gold watch or a woman wearing a necklace some have a minute they do not wear gold on Yom Kippur based on the day that the coen goggle did not wear gold when he went into the Holy of Holies except that's even the source of wearing white onion Kippur whether it's a kitchen or a woman wears a white dress or people even wear white some people even more white yarmulke you know etc now the Gemara then asks a very interesting question wait a second here you're comparing the chauffeur of the cow to the gold and the up Kippur the wait a second even on Yom Kippur it was uh sure to wear the gold only when the calling bottle went into the coat a shock gushing when he's not in the color succession he could wear go now when I blow show for I'm not in the code of subduction so let me use a Palestine in other words this rule that you don't your sin with you is only in the kolychev dozen because outside of the cottage enter the : got a war go even on Yom Kippur so the kumaras answer is no the moment of blowing shofar is equal to every single one of us standing in the Holy of Holies of the Holy of Holies rules are what apply when you blows over and that's why it cannot be a cow's horn and similarly you shouldn't have a gold embroidery on the show for either for the same same reason so now this less Emma says the following the moment of blowing shofar I am it is equivalent in sanctity to standing with Hashem in the kodesh obsession at that point even our mouths are no longer capable of uttering prayer because the same logic that says ain't category so Sinagra applies to our lips how often do our mouths are our mouths vehicles for Russian Hara for sinful speech for insults for anger for in sincerity for lying for flattery so when you're in the codification you have to give to God that which is totally pure and totally good ain't categor gnosis and egging our words are not totally people but the cry that comes from our glutes our innermost camellias that I give back to a chef because although on a conscious level there may have been so many different sins that I committed but in the deepest recesses of my intrinsic being there is holiness and goodness and that is why I finish my prayer by giving Hashem that within me is precious and good therefore the shofar is that prayer that transcends the insincerity of my verbalizations and my rationalization that is the anchor tag or not so similar this is what the sauce Emma says is the meaning of shofar and now the shofar brings our prayers to shamayim seen in this way let me just mention another thought from my foot there the quicker says a show for is the sound that is made by blowing like you blow air into the ram's horn that makes makes a sound he says that's very reminiscent I mean what happened at Rosh Hashanah Hashem created under Mauritian house in a sham created emerita he blew in sending the spirit of life exactly as a chauffeur blew air into the so the chauffeur sound really reminds us of that day five thousand seven hundred and seventy eight years ago it's going to be when I Shem Lew into Adam the spirit of life but it's moving in an opposite direction on Rosh Hashanah God breathed that spirit into me on Rosh Hashanah I'm blowing it back to him I'm blowing it out the foot there says a very dramatic metaphor he says a shofar is a symbolic death experience what you're doing is you are acknowledging to Hashem my life belongs to you everything I hope you will decide to keep it back to me but I know the show for you giving it back to Russian person that that's symbolic a deaf president work is what show for show where is and finally let me just mention presumption is well Hirsch who actually says a simpler thought but again it would be a beautiful thought he says if takea represents that soul that God breathed into me remember the takea is solid unbroken that is the soul of purity and goodness now the sound that I make after the takea is chiavari that basically says after a Shem gave us this beautiful soul we break it up with sins and availeth but from the Shorin comes a truer the crying of the heart that wants to do Chuba and come back to us and what do you get after that process you get the takea again you get a restoration you get back to that purity not only that but many have the custom that the takea after the true is slightly longer than the dakea before the true and certainly the last akia is very long with the Kia Cee'd Ola those doesn't have to be as long as some people I can see people like to blow at the 45 minutes or a man you know it doesn't have to be that long just a little bit longer and of course it surrenders to mushiya what rehearse says to keep the dome is a ramus that's a place where the ball trubiz stands is even greater than the place of the Saudi Gummer so you started off as a righteous person and then there's this integration and then there's the crying of Trueba then there's the restoration to the Tegea right so we have these different perspectives of shofar we have so far as the prayer of the hearts coming from the deepest place within you we have the chauffeur as a symbolic death in which you give your life force back to God and we have the chauffeur as explaining or illustrating the process of chuva of rupture and then then reconciliation and healing so Abbey Ezra - Shem I hope that attempt should hear all of our - filo so may you all be blessed with a receiver Fatima Tova together with all of you know you throwing all of the all of the world in a very very good way [Music]