It's Tisha B'Av tonight.
But this is a good one for Rosh Hashanah in 2 months.
Got to contain the spray from the blowing of the shofar.
It's a coronavirus time of year. ;-)
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July 29, 2020
Good One for Rosh Hashanah
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September 16, 2012
The Shofar: We Can All Improve
On Rosh Hashanah, we blow the Shofar (traditionally made from a ram's horn) in synagogue.
My sister-in-law, Sara Herbsman, told me a beautiful learning about the three types of blasts on the Shofar that correspond to 3 types of people that think they may be beyond repair, but who can still improve their lives:
1) Tekiah--tekiah means rooted and is one long blast--a person is never too stuck, stubborn, or set in their ways to change.
2) Shevarim--shevar means broken and the sound is 3 short broken blasts--that is a person is never to broken to fix.
3) Teruah--comes from the word Ra which means bad and is 9 rapid very short alarm blasts--that is a person is never too bad or evil to repent.
For those who have heard the Shofar blast, it is a moving experience--as if your very soul is stirred to introspection and fear of heaven.
I remember learning in Jewish Day School that our prayers would ascend to G-d in heaven on the blast of the Shofar.
But what I always like the best was the story of the one little boy in synagogue who did not know how to pray, but instead just cried--and his tears, full of sincerity, ascended beyond all the other prayers all the way to throne of the Almighty.
May G-d bless us with a happy, healthy, prosperous, and peaceful New Year.
Andy
(Source Photo: here with attribution to Elias Punch)
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