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Friday, October 3, 1986
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Special to The Jewish News
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•
utumn approaches.
Before we even
realize, the weather
begins to turn, the colors de-
epen. We prepare for a new
season. Our activities include
adding layers of covering to
provide protection against the
cold weather soon to follow.
Or so we think.
For every Jew throughout
the world, autumn's an-
nouncement to "take cover" is
preceded and overshadowed
by a piercing call that brings
a different, contradictory
message: "Shed your 'cover.' "
That vibrant call, made every
year at Rosh Hashanah, is is-
sued from the shofar. It re-
minds us that prior to the
conquest of Jericho, Joshua
blasted the shofar and "the
walls came tumbling down."
At Rosh Hashanah, the
season of introspection, we
are taught that true self-
analysis involves the break-
ing down of walls. We all
wear masks, all kinds of dis-
guises; the shofar says to
penetrate those walls, remove
Avraham Weiss is senior
rabbi at the Hebrew Institute
of Riverdale, N.Y. and is on
the Judaic studies faculty at
Stern College-Yeshiva Uni-
versity.
the masks and allow the true
persona to emerge.
A tale is told of a desper-
ately sad man who sought
counseling. A doctor
suggested that the man begin
intensive therapy the follow-
ing week. To carry him over,
the counselor offered the man
a free ticket to see the
famous comedian, Cornelius,
who was in town that night.
"He's hilarious," the doctor
said. "He'll make you laugh
... you'll feel better."
With that, the mans face
skewed in pain and he burst
into tears.
The doctor asked, "Why are
you crying so? I've mapped
out a plan to give you relief.
Go see Cornelius, He'll help
you."
The desperate man replied
amidst sobs, "But you don't
understand. I am Cornelius."
Pop singer Billy Joel said it
well: "Honesty is such a H
lonely word: everyone is so -\
untrue." The shofar's first
call is for real honesty.
Truthfulness can some-
times be bitter. Looking into
yourself can be painful, espe-
cially if you think you have
little to offer. Here again, the
shofar teaches a lesson:
Words do not emanate from
the ram's horn, but rather a
cry, a call whose sounds
emerge from the breath of
the inner soul of the person
blowing the shofar. Mystics
maintain that if you look de-
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