Filling the silence: What does the shofar ask of us on Rosh Hashanah?

Filling the silence: What does the shofar ask of us on Rosh Hashanah?

There’s a particular silence that settles across a congregation as the shofar’s cry reverberates across the sanctuary throughout the month of Elul and over the course of the High Holidays. The12th-century scholar Maimonides understood the call of the shofar as a spiritual alarm: “Wake up, sleepers, from your sleep,” he wrote, urging us to examine […]

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