Rachel Goldberg-Polin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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And we woke up this morning.
Everyone who's listening to this woke up this morning.
And so I think there's also this idea at this time of year of not just reflection of looking back, but there's preflexion of looking.
Looking ahead, what am I going to do with my time?
Right.
You know it's coming.
It's also called Yom Trua, the day of shofar blasts.
The shofar is the horn of usually either a ram or a sheep or a goat.
It has to be from a kosher animal and hollow, but we don't use a bull or a cow.
I'll leave you in suspense of why.
And the shofar has three specific sounds, four if we're being sticklers, because one of the sounds is elongated at the
End and so it becomes you could technically say there are four sounds, and each one helps create the theme of what we're supposed to be feeling.
The first one is the tikiah sound, which is that one long shofar blast, which is reminiscent of the trumpet blast that used to be used when a king was coronated.
And on the most basic level, this is sort of jar.
Us with the awareness that there's something larger at the core here, that there's something larger that's in charge.
It makes us moderns very uncomfortable to think that.
But that is at the essence, is when we're doing this tiki coronation sound, that we're really crying out, there's something bigger than us, even us important people that we think we are so in control.
There's something bigger than
The second sound is the trua sound, which is nine short blasts.
The two, which Rabbi Moses Maimonides, the Rambam, says is really like this primal alarm clock for the soul.
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