“The call of the Shofar is meant to encourage us to find something ever more powerful beneath it — namely, the call of our own souls,” writes Rabbi Avremi Zippel.
Orthodox Rabbi Avremi Zippel of the Chabad Lubavitch of Utah pictured on Sept. 25, 2019.On Sunday afternoon, I’m going to stand on a busy street corner in Salt Lake City, and blow a ram’s horn.In fact, I’ll be surrounded by dozens of members of Salt Lake City’s Jewish community. Together, we’ll be partaking in the central observance of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, as we traditionally sound the Shofar, continuing an unbroken chain of thousands of years of our tradition and heritage.
The Kabbalists, the Jewish mystics, several centuries ago, likened the simple wail of the Shofar to a cry that comes from the soul; the true human essence. There is an outpouring of human emotion that can be expressed in coherent thought and borne out in words, and then there is a primordial call from the essence, far too intense or painful to find expression in spoken language.
And then there’s once a year when the soul issues out a call from the depths, from the truest sense of self. As global Jewry marks the beginning of a New Year, a recommitment to continue to make the world a more Godly abode, and to accept God’s Kingship upon us for another year, our soul truly shines on center stage. The call of the Shofar is meant to encourage us to find something ever more powerful beneath it — namely, the call of our own souls.
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