📯 Why the shofar? Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, asks the question nobody asks: if Rosh Hashanah is about the binding of Isaac, why do we not bring a ram to the synagogue and speak about it — why a horn?
Because the shofar is not only about the test Abraham passed — it is about what he did the second after he passed it. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, walks through the Akeida: the knife raised, the voice from Heaven, “do not lay your hand on the lad.” Any other father would have collapsed in relief. Abraham did not even turn around. He lifted his eyes and asked: what is the next commandment? And he saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns.
That is the horn we blow. Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, shlit’a, draws the principle: the fall of a person begins the moment he says “I have done a mitzvah, now I may rest.” Life is like breath — you cannot say you are tired of breathing and take an hour off. Whoever stops breathing does not live. From strength to strength, without one moment of standing still.
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0:00 — But we must also ask, why the binding of Isaac?
0:54 — You have done the greatest thing, your reward is great, and so on and so forth.
1:52 — Our father Abraham goes with great self-sacrifice, without any question of the Holy One, Blessed be He.
2:39 — We should have, on Rosh Hashanah, brought a ram to the synagogue and mentioned the ram of Isaac.
3:34 — Our father Abraham is not shaken.
4:27 — What is our father Abraham thinking?
5:23 — So for what do we celebrate Rosh Hashanah and blow the shofar?
6:16 — Our father Abraham understood that those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength and go from strength
7:11 — That is a downfall.
8:03 — And the moment a person lives the Torah and the mitzvot, the moment a person fills his days every moment with
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