LIVING WITH MOSHIACH #2481

In memory of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok ben R' Zalman Yuda Deitsch OBM

Rav Saadia Gaon taught, "In the place where a person's thoughts are, so there he himself is found." During the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashana, a Jew's thoughts are on hearing the "great shofar," (heralding the Redemption) and thus he indeed hears the "great shofar" to which his thoughts are directed. Since 'deed is the essential thing," we must work to ensure that the "great shofar" should be sounded in actuality - to work in doing those things that bring the Redemption closer, when the promise of "It shall be on that day that a great shofar will be sounded" will be literally fulfilled.