There are things that are important for us, so we speak about them.
There are things very important to us -- and so words flow out from us,
bursting with emotion, meaning and depth.
And then there are things that shake us to the core. The core of our
being does not wait for the mind's permission or for the right words -- there
are no words that can contain it. It breaks out in a cry, in a scream and in
silence.
This is the sound of the shofar: A crying voice, not even of a human
being, but of an animal's horn. We need the animal -- not for its coarseness,
but on the contrary, because we need to express something so sublime, it
cannot find words; so essential and unbounded, the mind can neither fathom
it nor hold it back.
The very core of our souls needs to cry, "Father! Father!"
