How does the shofar cause the transfer from kissay hadin to rachamim as it says in Vakiyra Rabbah (39:3)? The Midrash Rabbah Bamidbar Ch. 30 says that Balak said if you can't curse the Jews now, maybe curse them when Yehoshua takes over. Bilim said that will also be unsuccessful as Yehoshu will blow shofrot and the walls of Yericho will fall, that is what is means ותרועת מלך בו. Why do the shofar blasts cause the walls of Yericho to fall?
We have mentioned in the past that the shofar is a form of prayer that comes from the depths of a person. We have spent the month of Elul and will spend a long time on Rosh Hashana praying but when we use use words it means it is a prayer affected by our processing of information. There is our ego put into it. Sometimes we must stop and just cry out without any words. It is the pure sound of the person, the רוח של נשמת חיים that can erupt and accept the kingship of Hashem. The Ritva in Rosh Hashana (16a) says the shofar is part of the malchiot. The sound of the shofar is the sound of putting aside one's agendas and desires and trying to to accept the malchut of Hashem. When one does that all the blockages, all the walls in life, the walls of Yericho come tumbling down. That is what causes the transference to the kissay of rachamim. When one is willing to put aside their own desires and can just focus on the pure cry of accepting the kingship of Hashem (based upon a shmuz by Rabbi Elefant.)
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