Wishing all who visit this page
a Good and Sweet New Year
oooOooo
The great Shofar is sounded
And a still small voice is heard
The
first is merely the prelude to the
second.
A
physical sign to encourage
and
mark a spiritual event.
The
real “work” (avodah) of the Ten Days
is
listening to the true “Voice of the Shofar”,
the
one which the ram’s horn merely heralds:
and
that Voice often speaks clearest in the silence.
May
we hear it in the silence between the multiple blasts
of
Rosh Hashanah and the Final Blast after Yom Kippur.
but
also..... in any silence in which we make space
for
it to speak in the midst of our busy lives."
Nachman Davies 2010
