Purpose of the Shofar - R. Uri Lati - TorahAnytime.com

we come to rosh hashanah we come to the new year we hear the blowing of the shafar and we say that's enough is that enough rabbah are you done 101 sound is that enough you know it's like until there was a person that lived in the village and he went to the metropolis to the great town to the great city he's walking over there and all of a sudden you hear sirens and he asks the people what is this siren tom you don't know this is a siren that alerts the fire station that brings the fire trucks that brings the firemen because there's a fire in the town and they have to extinguish the fire he says wow amazing this is what the siren does i gotta buy one of these sirens i gotta buy one of these sirens and he goes and he asks around in his local siren place or wherever you buy a siren from maybe a local costco so he goes and he buys a siren he takes the siren and he goes back to this village and they all look at him like what what is this this is a new invention a new creation amen this is a new creation what do you have over here he says all our problems are solved i have this siren what does a siren do you just wait and see sure enough after a few days there was a great fire in the town in the village he says leave it up to me i got the siren he puts the siren on he puts it on when when the people are telling him meanwhile the house is burning down he says don't worry i saw it happen in the town i saw it happen in the great city don't worry the siren's still going on in manuel and the fire consumes the whole house the whole house burns down hey tom what have you done he says this is what i saw in the city they say you fool the siren is supposed to alert the firemen to come and extinguish the fire to put out the fire if you have no firemen what good is the siren that's the analogy the lesson is the moral lesson is we can hear the shofar all we want we can hear the blowing of the rams aren't all we want we can hear the 101 voices all we want however if we don't put something into action what good is the shofar you can blow the shaft on the new year over the shofar on a thursday every afternoon doesn't mean anything i'm sorry it's not only the kavanagh it's a plan of action you know many people are in the amazon business we should never know if they shut down your amazon account the first thing they ask you is we want a plan of action which means we want to see what are you going to do with all am i speaking chinese you guys know what amazon is right okay you guys know what amazon is they say if you don't bring down these listings that's it then your account so you're supposed to give us a plan of action what are you ready to do that's what hashem wants that's what our creator wants he doesn't want us to hear only the ram's horn the voices the sounds the blowings no what is your plan of action for the new year are you willing to change are you willing to change that's all i want from you how much of a change to each their own but are you willing to change are you standing in front of me on judgment day and by the way the judgment day is supposed to be the happiest day of the year what do you mean it's judgment day god is judging us but who's judging you your father their compassion father the creator that loves you so much he wants to write you in the book of life he wants to inscribe you in only good deeds and only good decrees so the father is waiting for you how much are you willing to change so it's not enough just to hear the blowing of the shofar you