When God created Man, God created man as a lifeless being, and only afterwards injected a blast of wind which reached his inner core, which gave him the soul of life. Rabbi Eli Gewirtz is the National Director of Partners in Torah. During the course of the year we tend to get caught up in our daily routine, and tend to get away from that soul and that purity. We cloud ourselves with an outer veneer and tend to get separated from our spiritual selves. The howling sound of the Shofar causes us to tremble, to shake us up a little bit and to bring us back to the state of the unblemished soul.
Life is the ability to grow.
Rosh Hashanah begins this week and it marks the start of a ten day period known as the High Holy Days. Pulse of the Planet is presented by the American Museum of Natural History. Additional funding for this series has been provided by the National Science Foundation. I'm Jim Metzner.