NAALEH.COM and YU TORAH The Silent Sound Of The Shofar By: Mrs. Shira Smiles

he mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is hearing the shofar. What should we be thinking of as we hear the shofar blasts that will make this mitzvah relevant? In the Mussaf Amidah of Rosh Hashanah we ask Hashem to remember the akeidah, the binding of Isaac, and in the shofrot section of the Amidah the references are to the shofar blasts at Sinai when we accepted the Torah. What is the connecting theme between the shofar, the akeidah and Sinai? And if Rosh Hashanah is the Day of Judgment, why don’t we discuss teshuvah and have viduy (confession) as part of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy as we do on Yom Kippur? Summary by Channie Koplowitz Stein.