{"id":405,"date":"2021-05-20T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/wordpress\/?p=405"},"modified":"2021-05-20T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T19:01:39","slug":"when-you-are-unable-to-blow-the-shofar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/2021\/05\/20\/when-you-are-unable-to-blow-the-shofar\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN YOU ARE UNABLE TO BLOW THE SHOFAR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>(Courtesy: Tales of Hassidim &#8211; Martin Buber)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn the last New Year\u2019s festival in the life of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak, they tried in vain to blow the ram\u2019s horn. No one could wring from it a single note. Finally the&nbsp;<em>tzaddik&nbsp;<\/em>himself put it to his lips, but he too did not succeed. It was clear that Satan was involved in the matter. Rabbi Levi Yitzhak put down the horn, laid it aside, and cried: \u2018Lord of the world! In your&nbsp;<em>Torah<\/em>&nbsp;it is written that we Jews are to blow the ram\u2019s horn the day on which you created the world. Look down upon us and you will see that all of us have come with our wives and children to do your command. But if we are denied this, if we are no longer your beloved people, well \u2013 then let Ivan (the Russians) blow the ram\u2019s horn for you!\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll wept and in the depths of their hearts they turned to God. After a time, the rabbi put the ram\u2019s horn to his lips again, and now it emitted a flawlessly pure sound. After the prayer, Rabbi Levi Yitzhak turned to his congregation and said: \u2018I vanquished him (Satan), but it will cost me my life. Here I am, a sin-offering for Israel.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe died a few weeks later.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Courtesy: Tales of Hassidim &#8211; Martin Buber) \u201cOn the last New Year\u2019s festival in the life of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak, they tried in vain to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berdichev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}