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A Cry for Help – Shofar Mediation

By Ari Shishler

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Rabbi Ari Shishler is the director of Chabad of Strathavon, South Africa

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Posted: Sep 11, 2009

re effect

Hello,
I must admit that I did not listen to Rabbi Ari Shishler's entire sermon: I was quite incensed when I heard his application of the parable!
Perhaps, therefore, I should not have been so rash in my scathing first comment.
May we all be inscribed and sealed for a good new year

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Posted: Sep 10, 2009

RE: The effect of the Shofar

Shalom Anon Salford,
Thank you so much for your answer. I cannot disagree with your answer at all. I think I need to listen to the teaching once more to grasp what was said that is so disagreeable to you. I know that sometimes where "we" perceive that we disagree, is actually and only that the insight is another facet or depth of the same jewel. But, I do like your answer. Todah.
L'Shana tova.......

Posted By Dvora Fairfield

Posted: Sep 10, 2009

re The effect of the Shofar

The effect of the Shofar:
First and foremost, as our Rabbis put it most succinctly, G-d has instructed us to blow the Shofar, therefore we blow; His reasons [and metaphysical or transcendental effects] are Infinite and beyond mortal intellect.
However, like every Mitsvah [commandment], the performance thereof automatically binds the person to G-d. The simple hearing and listening to the kol Shofar [voice of the shofar], which is a language of the soul, binds the person to their Creator, their Source, whether for the simple reason that it is a Mitsvah, or for the deeper, esoterical ramifications described in Zohar and Ari Haquodosh.

Whilst it may be true that knowledge and meditation on the effects of the mitsvah may increase a person's experience and level of love of G-d, etc, nonetheless the action of the Mitsvah per se binds the soul to G-d with the binding peculiar to that particular mitsvah, [perhaps similar to how eating a nutritious food will have an effect on the body . .]

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