Bit not my style……but i’ll give it a try anyway. and sorry bout last week!!!
This really is more connected to the high holidays than the parsha, but at the end of the day it ties into the parsha AS well…. so i guess it qualifies (for what??)
I saw in the Sfas Emes that the the rosh [i.e the rishon] (and someone else..can;t remember who) says that the main part of the mitzva of shofar is not the blowing but the hearing.
This was quite surprising to me, cuz i thought that it was a regular mitzva, like kiddush for instance, 1 guy can make kiddush for everyone, but technically speaking everyone is obligated to make their own, it;s just that thru “shomeah ke’oneh” and “oneh kemedaber” everyone can be yotze. and so to me, that was the way that all mitzvas work. technically a person should preform the mitzva on his own, but there are ways in which 1 person can do the action and others can be included,
So what is so “special” or “different” bout shofar, that the actual mitzva ends up being different than other mitzvas?
The answer you are about to read, is in NO WAY a pshat/halachik answer, it is drush/cute at best, and more likely incorrect/weird, and yet…… i plan on giving you every detail of it!!!
HAZEEENU, that’s what it’s all about, listen. listen and listen again.
Rosh hashana is all bout pronouncing “hashem is the king”, we pronounce hashem as being our sole (and soul) owner, he rules us, and………………. and that is exactly the question, where do we take it from that?
If all we do on rosh hashana is pronounce hashem is the king, but we don’t kow where we are supposed to take that, we don’t understand the ramifications, then to a degree, the pronouncement is useless.
Fine we pronounced hashem is the king, but now what?
This is where the mitzva comes in. As we mentioned b4 the mitzva is simply to listen, all we have to do after we pronounce hashem is king, is to shut up, sit down and listen to what he has to say to us. Hashem gave us a torah, a life manual, a 100% guarantee that if we do as it says we will accomplish what it is we were sent down here for! and so…………listen
In my opinion that is what the shofar (in part) is coming so teach us, and that is why (once again NOT pshat) as apposed to many other mitzvas, HERE the mitzva is to just listen.