Sept. 14, 2023

Awakening from Spiritual Slumber: Understanding the Role of the Shofar's Call on Rosh Hashanah

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Season 5

What if I told you that you're sleeping right now? Not in the literal sense, but metaphorically, lost in the monotony of daily life and heedless of your spiritual obligations. In this intriguing episode, we unravel the mystery behind the phenomenon of sleep, an activity that consumes at least 25% of our lives, and its spiritual implications. We delve deep into the symbolic significance of the shofar's call on Rosh Hashanah, a wake-up call to rouse us from our spiritual slumber and rekindle our connection with our higher purpose.

We'll explore how to ensure we don't sleep through this crucial alarm and miss its profound message. As we prepare for Rosh Hashanah, we'll learn to fine-tune our senses to truly hear the shofar's call amidst the cacophony of modern life. We'll also look into how to shake off the lethargy that monotonous routine can cast over our souls. So join us as we take this journey to awaken our spirit, tune out the distractions, and rekindle our collective consciousness towards our obligations, ensuring that when the shofar sounds on a holy day, we're ready to heed its call.

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You have most definitely engaged in this highly treacherous activity Sometime within the last 24 hours and probably engage in this practice nearly every single day, perhaps I should say every single night.

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It is something that is maybe the most unproductive way to spend some of your time.

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The sages have called this experience a Partial death and, what's more, you will minimally spend 25% of your time involved in this activity.

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What is this practice and activity?

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If you haven't discovered it already, there's none other then sleep, sleeping, getting your beauty rest at night time.

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And what if I told you that it's not only 25% of perhaps 35% of every single Alive moment that you have on earth that you will engage in this practice of sleep.

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But what if, right now, while you Are watching this, you may be sleeping?

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The Ram Bam tells us that, even though it is a clear edict and we do not necessarily need reasons or the depth behind the mitzvah for a fashem commands it.

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It's an edict and we just carry it out.

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But there is a remus, there is a certain lesson behind the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah, and that is Yeshene Mishin Aschem, arise, wake up Individuals from your slumber, for you have fallen into this comet toes, monotonous sleep, like Experience with the mitzvahs.

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You have distracted yourself with a havlehazman.

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You care more about the daily news than you do about your Kriashima.

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So let's send in the wrecking ball of the shofar with a glorious and melodious sound, the booming sound of this Ram's horn, the natural blow that will ignite your soul, and then after that, immediately, the trua like a jackhammer, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, waking you up, shaking you away.

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But what if I told you?

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Not, what if I told you?

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I will tell you.

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But there are times that it's not uncommon that I sleep through my alarm in the morning.

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How can I protect myself?

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How can you can protect yourself for not sleeping through with the alarm of the shofar.

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Maybe we don't hear it.

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Well, what is the way that you see to it that you don't oversleep?

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Your alarm in the morning, your alarm clock?

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You don't sleep so hard.

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If you are so deeply in rem with that slow sleep wave where you can't hear anything, you may not hear that alarm.

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But if you know you have some obligations and you're not such a deep sleeper, you're gonna hear that alarm.

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Maybe during LL we should already be pulling ourselves out of the deep sleep coma like state, and which our soul is lying so dormant and dead inside.

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But wake ourselves up a little bit already, before Russia shana, so that when the shofar does come we will actually hear the sound that alarm clock waking us up.

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So Hear the shofar already during LL.

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Try to tune out all the other beeping and honking and rackets of people's cell phones and cars.

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Hear the shofar.

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Don't sleep so deeply, so that when the alarm sounds on the holy day of Russia shana, with that beautiful shofar, it will shake you awake and remind you of your obligations.