Lee Diamond – The Astounding Shofar
It’s a clarion call
Precise and stark
Each note a message
Short and rising
Long and shrilling
Demanding and pleading
Repeated
Stunning
Each in crescendo
An alarm
But to whom / WHOM?
To the people?
To the multitudes?
Or to the The Throne
of the Almighty?
It wakes
It is ear piercing!
Awake O World, O Jew!
Or
Awake O God to our plea?
Someone’s sleeping !
Is it The Hidden Face of God
That slumbers and has abandoned our grave need?
Or is it ——our own Deaf Ears
That hear not
And allow for only silence?
The Baal Shem Tov
Tells a hearing story:
When all the keys to heaven
Are lost
And the gates thereof are sealed to us
And we can’t stand in HIS presence
To beg for forgiveness
The only “instrument”
That shatters the Walls
That Breaches the gap
That Open HIS ears
Is the
“Astounding Shofar”
Rising and falling
The only Jewish musical instrument
A Jewish plea, a Blast to
Be heard by
The Distant
NAME
Hear o Lord
Israel Is CALLING –TEKIAH
Shevarim
Teruah
Tekiah Gedolah
