{"id":56688,"date":"2020-09-04T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=56688"},"modified":"2020-09-04T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T21:09:40","slug":"off-the-pulpit-three-short-shofar-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/off-the-pulpit-three-short-shofar-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"Off the Pulpit: Three Short Shofar Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

By RABBI DAVID WOLPE<\/p>\n

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The second lesson is how one creates the sound. As Cynthia Ozick observed, the shofar has a broad end and a narrow end. If you begin by blowing in the broad end, you get nothing. But if you blow in the narrow end you get a sound everyone can hear. Judaism may seem like one small tradition in a large world. But Jews who have spoken from our tradition have been heard throughout the ages and throughout the world. By blowing in the narrow end, we offered a universal message.<\/p>\n

Finally the mitzvah is not the blowing of the shofar, but hearing it. Each Jew is commanded to hear \u2018kol shofar\u2019 – the voice of the shofar. The shofar is a lesson in listening. It rings throughout the ages, from our ancestors to us, from us to one another and to God. May the sounds of the shofar promise a year of healing and hope for Israel and for the world.
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\n(Rabbi David Wolpe is the senior rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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