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Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vehaya Bayom Hahu RH 5728 THE GREAT SHOFAR -B

Выпуск: Chabad Research Unit — rse Summary Vehaya Bayom Hahu RH 5728 THE GREAT SHOFAR -B. Темы: не определены автоматически. CHABAD ‫ב"ה‬ RESEARCH UNIT he Rebbe's Discourses T Free Summaries of Points from the Rebbe’s Chassidic Discourses ‫בלי אחריות כלל וכלל‬ ‫ד"ה והי' ביום ההוא ראש השנה תשכ"ח מוגה‬ Republished for Rosh Hashana 5785 3-4 October 20241 THE GREAT SHOFAR HE ROSH HASHANA LITURGY INCLUDES THE VERSE2 ‘ON T THAT DAY (CLOSE TO THE REDEMPTION) THE GREAT SHOFAR will be sounded and those who are lost in the land of Assyria (Ashur) will come, and those who stray in the land of Egypt’. The answer is given in a discourse by the Rebbe Maharash9, which speaks of the idea in the Talmud that ‘a year which is poor at 4 There are people who walk on Rosh Hashanah for hours to blow the Shofar for those in hospitals or in other non-communal situations. For such challenges there has to be the Great Shofar, which elicits a flow of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, which shine in the days of Elul and even more in the Ten Days of Teshuvah, including Rosh Hshana and Yom Kippur. But this will lead to the immense revelation of the Great Shofar which will also reach those who are more literally lost in the lands of Assyria and Egypt, lost in the realms of inappropriate pleasure and assimilation. In the same way, it says about Yom Kippur ‘on this day you will be atoned’7, without saying who will atone for you, because this atonement comes from that exalted level beyond the Tetragraamaton, beyond any Name. Chabad Research Unit – www.chabadresearch.net – cru@lubavitchuk.com Giving of the Torah the sound of the Shofar is described as getting stronger and stronger - this was only the sound, not the Shofar itself. There are several levels of Shofar, as we see from the Chassidic discussions of Rosh Hashana which falls on Shabbat, when the Shofar is not sounded in ordinary communities, outside the Temple3. The ordinary Shofar can only reach those who are in some way involved in Jewish life, as of course, was the case for everyone present at Sinai at the Giving of the Torah. However it is sounded within the Temple, because the sounding of the Shofar inside the Temple reaches a more exalted level of delight, higher even than that of Shabbat. This implies that the very fact of being ‘lost’ in any way, is itself the key to achieving the exalted heights of the revelation of the Great

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