The Shofar’s Message of Hope

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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.

So, in about a week, we're going to blow the shofar. Now, besides the shofar being like a wake-up call for all of us, there's another very powerful, hopeful message in the shofar. If you listen to the sounds, what do we say? A tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah, which means one long, strong, consistent blast, followed by three short blasts, then nine really short blasts, and then one very long one again. And I feel like this progression of sounds is actually the story of our lives. Like, how many times in life did we start off something doing it so consistently, so strong, we were going great. Then we start to trip up a little bit, get a little less consistent, messed up a bit, and then even more, nine times it just kept happening again and again and again. But

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3. 1:01past, but every single time you got back on your feet, you pushed forward, you were…

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