But In addition. the piercing sound of the shofar proclaims the sovereignty of God and serves as a reminder to Jews that on the New Year the Lord weighs their behavior of the year past as an indication of the type of the year they will have in the future. The shofar is a call to judgment. The year ahead presents many basic challenges to Jewish wellbeing and destiny. Whether or not the hundreds of thousands of Jews in the Soviet Union who seek to emigrate to Israel will be permitted to do so will probably be decided in the year 5735. I visited the U.S.S.R. in 1973 and saw the desperate hope that the dissidents have that they will be allowed to lead free lives In a Jewish state. Both before and after the trip to the Soviet Union.
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