The Chidushay HaRim comments on Ha'azenu:
The ספר החיים is the sefer of understanding of Torah as Torah is the עץ חיים. We daven to be able to access new understandings in Torah. That is בינו שנות דור ודור that every year a new understanding is given, the inspiration of brain power for the year is determined on Rosh Hashana as well (see also post of my father last year, "yom ha'din -- on Torah".)
In the introduction of שארית יוסף volume 3 Rabbi Wahrman cites this Rim in conjunction with other sources that there is a precise time for a chiddush in Torah to be brought into the world. We are davening to be able to merit to access the chiddushim that are meant to be revealed specifically in תשפ"ה.
Rebbe Nasan in Likutay Halachat Beis Hakeneset (5:19) notes that the word תרועה is made of the words תורה ע, the 70 various modes of interpreting Torah. In the mitzvah of shofar itself we allude to the Torah for it is through the Torah that everything else falls in place.
The Kedushas Levi says that we blow shofar on Rosh Hashana to "remind" Hashem of the time of Mattan Torah when the shofar was blown. Every other nation said no to the Torah but we accepted. It is that time of favor when Klal Yisrael chose to accept the Torah in which we seek to imitate now in order to arouse favor that no matter how far removed we seem from that exalted time deep down we are the same people. It is the merit of the Torah that we seek to evoke through the shofar and blow new understandings into our learning for the new year.
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