ANNUAL RINGS OF THE YEAR Seasons come and go, mixed with pleasures, displeasures, anger, romance, anxiety, jealousies, fears, joys, loss, gain, laughs, cries, snow, sun, warm cold- It is all in there in the circle of a year ? taking us away from the essence Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net
AND THEN I HEARD THE BLASTS OF THE SHOFAR AND NOW I?M ALL SHOOK UP Mm mm mm, mm, yay, yay, yay SOUNDS OF THE SHOFAR Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah THESE ARE REFLECTED IN SHELL FORM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SHOFAR TEKIAH,Single shell- the ?blast,? one long blast with a clear tone. SHEVARIM, Three curved shells ? a ?broken,? sighing sound of three short calls. TERUAH ? 9 SMALL SHELLS the ?alarm,? a rapid series of nine or more very short notes. TEKIAH GEDOLLAH ? Rams horn ? ?the great Tekiah,? a single unbroken blast, held as long as possible. (A combination of Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, ending with a Tekiah Gedolah.) ? Awake, sleepers from your sleep! Arise, slumberers, from your slumber! Scrutinize your deeds and return to repentance and remember your creator! Those forgetters of the truth in the vanities of time and those who stray all their year in vanity and emptiness which can neither help nor save. Look to your souls, better your ways and deeds. Let each one of you abandon your evil way and your thoughts which are not good.? ?The shofar symbolizes the major theme of the Days of Repentance, during which we commemorate the beginning of the world. We try to make a new start within ourselves, and to return to the beginning of the cycle. The shofar, with its powerful and profound calls, removes the obstacles before us and helps us reach this new start.? What did Elvis say about this? I?M ALL SHOOK UP Mm mm mm, mm, yay, yay, yay A well?a bless my soul What?sa wrong with me? I?m itchin? like a man in a fuzzy tree My friends say I?m actin? wild as a bug I?m all shook up Mm mm mm, mm, yay, yay, ya Ashley Davidoff MD TheCommonVein.net