Shalom from Los Angeles. I am celebrating the Jewish holidays with my family and community. The Torah is deep. Are you ready? My friend Yoram P. described the Shofar so specifically, I hope I can do it justice. We are going to go to the story of Yakov’s ladder, when he laid down his head “ROSH,” and went to sleep, in Hebrew the letters are the same root as “HASHANA.” What does the ladder represent? I am just going to tell you, so many holy descriptions, yet if you are musical, it is clear it is the music bar. We all have a song, if you read the book of Joshua, you understand this concept, how he stopped the song of the sun. Similar to how nature was interrupted when the Hebrews were running from the Egyptians and the sea split. Everything in nature has a song, each being has a song. Maybe for souls, the songs evolve, change, morph and flow.

Let us get back to the Shofar. What is the shape? Narrow where you create the tune, and gets wider where you hear the sound. Everything for me is a birth analogy, as a Doula, creation is a process that I am humbled to witness. So what is the sound we hear? When labor begins, the womb opening is starting to expand from 1-10 centimeters. Once the baby emerges, you hear the cry, just like a shofar. Our soul releases to our creator, that we need........

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