The shofar is not always easy to hear. Maimonides wrote: “Awake, you sleepers, from your sleep! Examine your deeds, return in repentance, and remember your Creator” (Mishneh TorahRefers to the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, also called the Five Books of Moses, Pentateuch or the Hebrew equivalent, Humash. This is also called the Written Torah. The term may also refer to teachings that expound on Jewish tradition. Read more, Hilchot Teshuvah 3:4). The sound is disruptive on purpose. It is meant to jar us out of complacency.
What sound are you avoiding? Is there a truth you do not want to name, a voice you have ignored, a call you have silenced? Listen today for the sound you would rather not hear.
Kavanah: Face the sound you most want to turn away from.
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