Timeless Torah

“הַיוֹם הֲרַת עוֹלָם - Today is the birthday of the world, today all creatures stand in judgment…” (Rosh Hashana liturgy; recited after Shofar blowing.)
First: Why blow a horn? Why is prayer not enough?
Second: Why is the Torah so cryptic? “It will be a day of sounding.” Sounding what? The singular Biblical reference regarding sound is the Psalm, “Sound the shofar at the new moon.”
How do we know this means the beginning of the year?
The short answer: we always knew. One mystery solved.

Why is there no reference to Adam's birth anywhere in the High Holiday prayers? All you find is, “Today is the birthday of the world.”
Perhaps (a revolutionary thought): The cosmos assumed reality only after Adam opened his eyes. Quantum physics: there can be no event, without an observer. The universe begins with human consciousness.
Another mystery solved? No.
Genesis tells that Adam was formed on the sixth day. So, there was a world before with matter, energy, time, space, even angels. Why then commemorate Rosh Hashanah on Adam’s birth, not six days earlier at Creation?
Answer: we are not celebrating an anniversary: “Today is the birthday of the world,” means today, now. Today the world is born again. That first time the world was a freebie. Today it depends on us, the current Adam. Every Rosh Hashana we are reborn, and because of us, the entire universe.
The entire cosmos is on life-support. Glowing phosphors that form characters on a computer screen only exist until you pull the plug, and then the whole thing vanishes. Similarly, were G-d to pull the plug on His creation, space would vanish, time would be annulled. Indeed, there would be no memory of the world.
There is not a particle of the cosmos that sustains itself. The universe and everything in it pulsates with G-dly energy. The quality of this power is determined on Rosh Hashana, because that is when a new surge of energy for the coming year emerges.

We call it Rosh Hashana - Head of the Year, unlike other cultures that celebrate Hatchalat Hashana, New Year's Day. Just as the head contains within it a neuro-switch for every part of the body, so the Head of the Year…
Shana related to Shinu (change) and Mishne (repeat). Every year, the cycle repeats (albeit on a higher level). We re-experience the same flows of spiritual energy.

Moses lifted his hands by Amalek to confuse the zodiac. Mazal (12 equal day/night increments) – applicable very day. Not just through the year. Every one of those “hours” has a master of the hour (an angel).
The angelic force is eternal. He exists in a specific time frame. If you were born in a specific time you have a specific guardian angel. a mazal.
Mazal Tov – Congatualtions? Good Luck? It’s a prayer for a positive force. There should be a good angel working for you. Moses’ lifted hands mixed up the mazal.

“Man was created in His image.” “From my flesh I will se G-dliness.”
Rambam: a human being whose personality is patterned after His.
Soul powers are patterned after the 10 Divine spheres.
That explains why only people can be good or bad. These are Kochos Pnimi-im. Inner or specific powers that are limited to a specific behavior.
Then we have Kochos Makifim, catalyst, motivationg powers, they cause many behaviors. (pleasure, will).

What motivated G-d? The souls of the tzaddikim (He imagined…a virtual reality).
Story: Rabbi Telushkin’s father was the Rebbe’s accountant.

“Olom Chessed Yiboneh” a free world.
3 levels of will: Instinctual. Want a home. Dormant. needs to be motivated from outside. Actual.
What prompted G-d from #1 to step #2.
First year was a freebie. Every following year we need to convince
Rosh Hashana eve G-d pulls back. We blow shofar to call forth G-d’s will.
(How do we exist until then?)
Blowing shofar is Hamshacas Hataanug.
Taanug comes from the essnce of our soul simple the opposie of sphisticated
Strong emotions speak, issues shake tp the core speechless
Besht; abandoned prince
Isn't this strange, that a created being should take part in its own creation? Imagine cartoon characters participating with the artist in their own design. Imagine them pleading with the broadcasting corporation for air time in the coming season. Now imagine us, the created beings, pleading with our Creator, “Grant us life! Health! Nice things!”
How could it be? We possess a neshama, a G-dly soul that lies beyond creation, which is why we call G-d both a king and a father: A king because He determines whether we will be or not be; a father, because there is something of Him within us that allows us to take part in that decision.
The spark of G-d within us connects with the Infinite G-d above. We give him our holiest breath via the blowing of the ram’s horn. He responds with His Breath of Life. The shofar thus completes the circuit rebooting the universe with a flow of energy for an entire year.
With important matters, our words burst forth with emotion. When issues shake us to the core, there are no words. We break out in a cry. This is the sound of the shofar. The very core of our souls screams.
That is why prayer alone does not suffice. Our very life depends upon its blast reaching the Master of Mercy. And what day could that be if not the day, “all creatures stand in judgment,” the holy day of Rosh Hashana?

Adam wasn’t even Jewish. Why are we celebrating humanity’s birthday (mazal)?
Why should the Day of Judgment be so popular? Nobody copied it?
Since most cultures celebrate Shabbat (i.e., they believe in a Creation) why don’t they have Rosh Hashana?

Shofar with its narrow mouthpiece and wider opening resembles a birth canal (Note: Shifrah the midwife). Rosh Hashana is the New Year's birth canal and shofar is the midwife. Into its piercing cry we squeeze all our heartfelt prayers until it reaches the cosmic womb. There it touches a switch eliciting G-d’s first breath that gives us another year of life.