Why do we blow the shofar every day during the month of Elul?

The sound of the shofar, Maimonides explains, is the call to teshuvah.
Teshuvah means *returning* to your true self. As we get closer to the
high holidays, we start looking back at our year and see that we’ve gone
off the track here and there. We find that we have not allowed our souls
to dictate our actions.

In the month of Elul, the month before Rosh Hashanah, we start making
our way back—to G-d, to our souls, to our true selves. The sound of the
shofar is *the wordless cry of the soul, yearning to break free of the
prison* of the mundane.

Historically, our sounding of the shofar on the first day of Elul harks
back to the same date thousands of years ago when Moses went back up on
Sinai to receive the second tablets. The shofar was blown in order to
remind the Jews not to mess up again like they had the fist time.

Also: the shofar is said to “*confuse Satan*.”(Satan is not a guy with
horns running around with a pitchfork. “Satan” in Hebrew means to
“block” or to “push away.” “Satan” is the forces of negativity that G-d
creates to challenge us and “block” our way to fulfilling our mandate.
The sound of the shofar awakens within us the pre-verbal, transcendent
commitment that silences the voice of darkness.)

http://www.askmoses.com/qa_detail.html?h=283&o=544

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Leading up to Rosh Hashanah 2005 this is a wonderful reminder that
Judaism really is a sybolism toward New Testament Bible prophecy. Could
the sounding of the shofar represent the rapture of the church? I don't
know for sure but since Rosh Hashanah falls on either the 3rd or the 4th
- no man really knows the true day or the hour.

Possibility, yes or no?

Brandon

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Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. 2 Timothy 2:15

Brandon Channell
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