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The Shofar Blows!

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By RABBI LEON FRAM

It is the Jewish New Year and all the descendants of
Abraham go to their places of worship to seek inspiration
for the year ahead. A perfect silence falls upon the syna-
gogue as the worshippers await the blowing of the Shofar.
Front the mouth of the curved, carved horn of the rain
come crude, grating sounds.
Some people hear them and smile inwardly, "What a
quaint custom, this blowing of an antique instrument!"
they say to themselves. Some people hear the Shofar
sounds and say to themselves, "What a harsh noise, I wish
they would play a different instrument!" Some people
listen to the trumpet blasts and hear nothing at all
But if you look around among the faces upturned toward
the Shofar, you will see how, as the blasts come forth, some
facts are transformed—eyes begin to glisten, tears well
forth and smiles mingle with tears to form a rainbow of
rapture.
, Why are these men and women so wonderfully affected
by the blowing of the Shofar?
It is because the strings of their hearts have been tuned
to receive the radiations brodcasted from the Shofar. Each
blast, harsh and meaningless though it be to those not at-
tuned, carries to their receptive hearts a clean and sweet
message from God Himself.
Do you remember your first experience with the radio?
About two years ago a friend of mine invited me to lis-
ten to a concert on the radio receiving set which had just
been installed in his home. It was to be my first experience
with the radio, and I approached it as a thrilling adventure.
While he was making the adjustments, I hastened to put
on the earpieces. The air seemed full of sounds. There
was first a vague buzzing, then a lucid moment, when I
heard the dot and dash of the telegraphic code, then again
a great buzzing and whistling. Now a human voice was
heard amidst the confusion, now it was silenced again by
the insistent hum.
"But where is the concert?" I asked my host impa-
tiently, for I was beginning to become skeptical over the
whole radio affair.
"Wait," said my host, "Wait just a moment. I am tun-
ing in."
"Tuning in? What is that?"
"As soon as I adjust the wave lengths of my receiver
to the wave lengths of the broadcasting station where the
concert is being played, you will hear the music. Listen!
I think I am tuned now."
The strains of "Stars and Stripes Forever" strucks full
upon my ear and swept away all doubts. So that was
the trick! To put the receiver in tune with the broad-
caster!
As I tried to imagine the waves of music starting from
the sending instrument, flowing through the air, touching
the waiting antenae of thousands of receivers, and giving
them voice and life, there came to my mind that olden le-
gend of King David, told in the Talmud:
"Above the bed of King David," the Talmud tells us,
"above the bed of King David, which stood upon the flat
roof of his palace, there hung a great harp. And every
night, at midnight, the playful breezes would impinge
upon the hard, sweet melodies would stream forth, and
David would awaken. Inspired by the melodies of the
breezes, David would write his beautiful psalms and songs
of prayer."
I recited this legend to my friend and I told him that
here in the sayings of our rabbis of old, we have the first
instance of a radio. God, the great Broadcaster, was
sending his heavenly song through the air. The breezes
carried it through all the earth, but none heard it except
the heart that was perfectly attuned to Ileaven—the
heart of David, sweet singer of Israel. In writing those
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he was merely recording on parchment the divine poetry
that was brought to his devoted soul by the soft breezes
radiating from God and impinging upon the sensitive
strings of his harp and his heart.
When I observed that my host was very much inter-
ested in this Jewish legend, I told him of another which
I happened then to recall.
When the Shofar blows on Rosh Hashonah, an old
legend says thousands of angels come trooping out of the
mouth of the Shofar. And some are white, the embodi-
ments of good thoughts, and some are black, the embodi-
ments of evil thoughts. And the white angels go straight
to the hearts which are waiting for them. It all depends
upon the way your heart is prepared.
Now I remember that I was quite a little boy when this
remarkable legend was first told me by an old friend. Ile
told it to me on Rosh Hashonah morning, just before the
Shofar ceremony began. How eagerly, then. I watched
the mouth of that Shofar! And when the first long blast
was sounded I thought I caught a glimpse of something
white and bright in the air and I was certain I heard the
flapping of wings! Ah! How anxious I was to know
whether my heart had been prepared for the white or the
black angels. It was not until many years afterward that
I learned that it was not difficult to tell whether the white
or the black were entering your heart. It all depends
upon how you have tuned in.
The sounds of the ancient Shofar remind us of all that
is challenging in our religion, all that is glorious in our
history. Tune in to the Shofar! The rabbis tell us that
at the creation of the world the Shofar sounded. The Sho-
far speaks of the wonder and the power of God. Tune in,
then, to beauty, to truth, to health, to joy, to life!
When the Ten Commandments were revealed to Israel
at Sinai the Shofar sounded. The Shofar speaks of the
moral teaching which God gave to Israel to spread among
all men. Tune in, then, to the study of Judaism and to its
inspiration to service. Tune in to worship and loyalty.
When the year of Jubilee came to Palestine, the Shofar
sounded and at its sound all slaves were made free. The
Shofar proclaimed liberty throughout the land and unto
all the inhabitants thereof. Tune in, then, to freedom, to
progress, to social justice and to love of your fellowman.
And when the Messianic time shall come, say the
prophets, when all human beings will be united together
under the worship of the One God, the Shofar will sound
again in triumph. The Shofar speaks of the coming of
the Kingdom of God. Tune in, then, to faith, to the hope
of world peace, to the vision of a co-operative, harmoni-
ous humanity.
Tune in—and each blast of the Shofar will carry home
to your heart all that is challenging in our religion, all
that is stirring in our history.
Lo! The storied Shofar blows—God Himself is in the
sound of it. Tune in! Tune in!

'Dr. Philip Harmon Broudo

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the Jewish New Year, the Jewish Wel-
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in its series of annual calendars. It
follows the lines of the previous is-
sues, giving the dates corresponding
to those in the Hebrew calendar; ex-
planations of the significance of the
various Jewish holidays and holydays;
a sketch of the participation of Jews
in the wars of the United States, and
a directory of the constituent socie-
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