Daily Talk
The one sound the Torah explicitly commands on Rosh Hashanah is a sound we no longer know how to make, so we make all of them.
The Sound We Forgot
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About This Talk
Chapter three of the laws of the shofar builds the whole day out of a doubt: over the long exile we forgot what a teru'ah is, weeping or sighing, so we sound every possibility. Nine blasts that are one indivisible mitzvah, a cry with no words, and a King crowned not by speech but by a broken sound rising from the throat.