To all those „....who know (and are waiting for ) the joyful sound...“
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2005/friedrichw1013.htm
This morning “by chance” I found this beautiful article “The Shofar of Courage and Hope”
published on October 11, (8th of Tishrei...)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5641
Sorry, later I found that our Sis Peggy McIlveene had already mentioned in her letter
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2005/peggym1012.htm
this GREAT story!!!
Really “The Shofar of Courage and Hope” is a great amazing story....
It’s a story about Rabbi Moshe Segal....
Even today, Rabbi Segal is known in Israel as "the first of the shofar blowers”...
http://www.saveisrael.com/segal/segalbio.htm
As I searched at Google I did found some more reports...
http://www.saveisrael.com/segal/segalwall.htm
http://www.chabad.org/library/article.asp?AID=2246
it is amazing when you read... how it came to pass that he sounded the shofar back in the 1930s
on a Yom Kippur.... then he was arrested by the British .. finally he came free...
“In the following
years, others, inspired by Rabbi Segal, followed his example and shofars were sounded at the Western Wall
as Yom Kippur ended. Each year, the inevitable arrests followed. In 1948, when
the Arab Legion held the Old City and Jewish entry was prohibited, Jews prayed at the
conclusion of Yom Kippur on nearby Mount Zion - the
'Israeli' side of the city, from where the Kotel
was visible. They sounded the shofar
there and prayed for the day when once again, its voice could be heard at the
Western Wall.
In June of 1967, one of
the first acts of the victorious
paratroopers at the newly liberated Western Wall was the sounding of the shofar. At the end of Yom Kippur that
year, the man who blew the shofar
at the Kotel was none other than
Moshe Segal. His act of courage and faith eventually had a triumphant finale....”
Well, this is really amazing, isn’t:
“...the man who blew the shofar at the Kotel was none other than Moshe Segal. His act of courage and faith eventually had a triumphant finale...”
Wow, Yom Kippur 1967...
Yom Kippur 1967....was on Saturday, Sabbath Day, October 14, exactly 38 years ago......!!!
Wow!!! Two Yom Kippurs, 38 years apart....
http://www.ijn.com/LO.htm#story4
Why is this story published again right now ... in our days...???
Our Lord knows...
Well, again there is hope, .....the 38 years....
And ...according to Isaiah 61, 1, 2... Surely, the Lord likes “...to comfort all who mourn...”
( http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/oct2005/friedrichw1011.htm )
P.S.
according to the reports : Rabbi Moshe Segal passed away on a Jom Kippur day !!! (1984 or 1985)
What a sign!
Surely: “Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound.......”
(Psalm 89, 15)