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Recorded on: 31 Oct 2004
Language: English
Length: 0h 11m

The Call of the Shofar

The melody expresses the covenant relationship between a people and their God. We sing these verses on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The shofar, a ram's horn, is blown at the New Year and signals the end of Yom Kippur. Its sound symbolizes a future universal blast heralding world peace. The relationship is defined through intimate metaphors of family and duty. This music encapsulates a bond of chosenness and service. The horn's call points toward an ultimate divine revelation.

"Anu amecha veyata mahalkeinu, Anu mamirecha veyata mamireinu."

"when the day comes that peace will come to the world, there will be a blast from heaven that the whole world together will hear."

We will now share verses from Yisra’el. Kudetashe v’nei lachem, torati ha-machazikim ba. Listen, you must join me with the music. The words express simply: we are your people, and you are our God. We are your sons, and you are our father. We are your servants, and you are our master. We are your congregation, we are your inheritance, and you are our goal. We are your sheep, and you are our shepherd. This is a tune we sing on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. Shalom. Anu segulatecha veyata Eloheinu, Anu amecha veyata mahalkeinu, Anu mamirecha veyata mamireinu. We are your servants, and you are our Lord. Please. Ha, ha... ha. This is the shofar. It is a ram’s horn. It is written in the Torah—which was given more than 400,000 years ago—that we must blow it at the beginning of the Jewish year. We blow it both on the day called the New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and on Yom Kippur. One of the symbols of this shofar is that when the day comes that peace will come to the world, there will be a blast from heaven that the whole world together will hear: the blow of the shofar of peace.

This text is transcribed and grammar corrected by AI. If in doubt what was actually said in the recording, use the transcript to double click the desired cue. This will position the recording in most cases just before the sentence is uttered.

The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:

Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3
The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0
Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4

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