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2012-05-19

Shofar in the Wild

We mostly hear shofar indoors, blown in assembly rooms where the rest of nature is excluded. Yet in the past, shofar was mostly blown outdoors, its voice traveling from one hilltop to another or across a desert.
A participant in the most recent Passover Village encampment, took this "word photo" of shofar in the wild: 
We are in Community with The Rock People, The Winged People and The Four Legged People...

While I was approaching North on The Meditation Walk, a chorus of Shofarot sounded, to call Council again. The Shofar rumbled through the boulders, as if emanating from within ..as it filled hollowed spaces and cracks and bounced back out in a fuller resonance or response...Two California Quail scurried by, found individual perches overlooking our encampment, and stood, listening to the shofar. a medium size mammal a few boulders away (marmot) stopped, poised, picked up it's ears, and stood listening to the shofar. There we were, the five of us: Rock, Winged Ones, Four Legged, Two legged, Listening to the Sound of Heart carried on The Winds.

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