Wishing all who visit this page a Good and Sweet New Year
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