Rabbi Yehuda Glick arrived with a crew of shofar blowers to the ‘Shalom upon Israel’ synagogue in Jericho on Friday reenacting Joshua blowing the Shofar to bring down the walls of Jericho.
And when a long blast is sounded on the shofar—as soon as you hear that sound of the shofar—all the people shall give a mighty shout. Thereupon the city wall will collapse, and the people shall advance, every man straight ahead.” (Joshua 6:5)
Rabbi Glick recalls the Book of Joshua when he leads the Nation of Israel into the land and “calls the people to make peace with him – to make peace with Hashem. And he begins the conquering of the land through blowing the shofar the same shofar that the the sound of Hashem – sound of the lord.”
Glick added: “From heaven which we heard on the time of the covenant in Sinai and the covenant with god is the covenant of the word and the covenant of the land and the covenant of shalom. And when Joshua blows the shofar and surrounding Jericho, he’s announcing this is exactly a continuation of the event which takes place in Sinai. And…therefore we’re not allowed to touch the booty because it was it was a victory of Hashem the victory of God’s name is shalom. So we today as we’re entering here not as private people for entering in a very very sophisticated, very complicated, very unique times. On the one hand, the world is facing crises health crisis economic crisis and all this based on the covid 19. And prophet Joel teaches us blow the show for Zion.”
Blow a shofar in Tzion, Sound an alarm on My holy mount! Let all dwellers on earth tremble, For the day of Hashem has come! It is close (Joel 2:1)
“At the same time we are seeing new openings new breakthroughs in the relationship between israel and the land and the nations that are surrounding us.And we’re beginning an era of shalom an era of shalom in the region that’s another reason to blow the shofar.”
