Community Synagogue of Rye

Maimonides, one of the most important medieval Jewish scholars, teaches that the shofar’s cry really says, “Wake up, sleepers, from your sleep! And slumberers, arise from your slumber! Search your ways and return in teshuvah.” Mishneh Torah, Repentance, 3:4. So the shofar’s blasts pierce the silence to wake us up out of our complacency. ................
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