The Shofar’s Message About Ourselves

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Tzvi Sytner’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

If you ask most people why we blow shofar on Rosh Hashanah, most people will tell you because we want to proclaim God is king, which is true. But let's say God forbid for some reason we would not blow shofar on Rosh Hashanah. Does that make God not king? He's king of the universe no matter what. There's something else here. When we blow shofar, we proclaim God is king, we're saying he's my king, which is a statement really about ourselves. If he's my king, then I'm his servant. I'm here at his service. I'm here on this earth to do what he wants. It's a statement about ourselves, but we then put ourselves in check and go hold on a second. I'm not just I'm not just another human being just walking this earth. I'm here to do like godly things. I work for the king. And then we can look at our lives honestly and say, as a

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