only after
This
is the plea for the גאולה
of
the entire Jewish community, for whom there can be no חרות
while
it is in galuth. Its redemption will begin only once all of its
members will be gathered together out of this dispersion in order to
be reunited. But such a reunion cannot be brought out by human action
or even only through the intermediary of human effort; we must wait
for God Himself to sound the Shofar. Even as the individual can hope
for גאולה
(ראה
בענינו )
only
after he has first passed through the states of daa'th,
teshuvah and selichah, so our people can expect
collective geulah only after all of us have re-acquired for
ourselves the only true perspective of things, and after we all will
have returned to His law and to His faithful service so as to be
deserving of forgiveness and pardon. Any allegation that deliverance
can be obtained by other means than those is nothing but dangerous
folly.
R'
Samson Raphael Hirsch, Commentary on Siddur, p. 138 on the bracha
“Sound the great Shofar for our freedom”
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