“Ensuring that we stand before God with our entire beings, especially on Rosh Hashanah when God is deciding our fate for the upcoming year, is the call of the hour.

If we are unable to muster that presence of mind and heart on our own, the shofar’s blast is designed to awaken and ‘shock’ us into a full and immediate presence before the immanence of God, connecting the very depths of our innermost beings with the Transcendent Divine.

The searing sound of the shofar has the ability to fuse together all the disjointed parts of our personality, all the inner fragmentation, into one unified presence.”