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t is perhaps the most moving
moment of Rosh Hashanah: a
hush and then the sounding of
the shofar.
The shofar is one of Judaism's most
famous symbols and is responsible for
some of the religion's most profound
writings. Here are some insights into
the shofar from the Jewish
Information Highway.
Rav Saadiah Gaon gives 10 reasons
for blowing the shofar on Rosh
Hashanah
(www.ohr.org.il/special/roshhash/
shofar.htm). Among them: "Rosh
Hashanah is the day that commemo-
rates the creation of the world and it
is described as the 'coronation' of
God. As it is customary to sound a
trumpet at a king's coronation so we
blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
By blowing the shofar we recognize
the 'purpose' of the creation."
Rabbi Harold Kushner says listen-
ing to the shofar can teach us some-
thing about how to treat each other.

Mark Mietkiewicz is a Toronto-based

television producer who writes, lectures
and teaches about the Jewish. Internet.
He can be contacted at
highway@home.com .

Tekiah, the shofar sounds its wake-up
call, reminding us to live, to stop tak-
ing for granted the miraculous fact
that people like us, tolerate us, care
about us.
The second call of the shofar is she-
varim, the broken note, the plaintive
articulation of all the brokenness in
our lives, the bereavements and the
disappointments, the people taken
from us whom we miss at this season
and throughout the year.
The third of the shofar's notes,
teruah, is understood to be the procla-
mation of God's sovereignty, hailing
God as ruler of the world, like the
herald's trumpets that announce the
king www.uscj.org/NEWENG/
NATICK/kushnerrh.htm).
For more thoughts on the symbol-
ism of the shofar, see Rabbi Harold
Schulweis
vvww.vbs.org/rabbithshulw/
shofar.htm and Aish HaTorah
aish.com/holidays/
the_high_holidays/last/shofar.htm).
Virtual Jerusalem has a wonderful
mini-site devoted to the shofar
vvww.vjholidays.com/roshishofar.htm .
There's a survey of the other times the
shofar is sounded such as introducing
the lubilee year. During the Middle
Ages, Jews blew the shofar to mark
the beginning of the Sabbath or to
announce deaths, fasts and even
excommunications. And in more

