Blowers to the shofar, souls to the firing line

"To start love like this: with a cannon shotlike Ramadan.That’s a religion! Or with the blowing of a ram’s horn,as at the High Holidays, to exorcise sins.That’s a religion! That’s a love!"

As we enter the Days of Awe between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Marcela Sulak reads several of Yehuda Amichai's poems about the themes of the High Holidays: Judgement, memory, and, of course, the blowing of the shofar or ram's horn.

Text:Poems of Jerusalem and Love Poems.  Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. The Sheep Meadow Press, 1986.The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai. Translated by Chana Bloch and Stephen Mitchell. The University of California Press, 1996.

Music:Adonai BeKol Shofar Nosach TripoliRav Moshe Levi - Tikiat Shofar Nosach TeymanIlanit - LeOrech HaShdera SheEin Ba IshShai Tsabari - Lavi Oti