Only One Option Left?

Answer

We aren’t scared of narrow. Narrow is good. That is where big things happen.

Birth begins in a narrow place. We each became a person by climbing through a tight canal.

Our nation was born in a narrow place. In Hebrew, Egypt is called Mitzrayim, which literally means “narrowness.” We became a people by surviving that restricitive land.

And every new year is born when we blow the Shofar. Try blowing a shofar from the wide end. Nothing happens. The sound of the shofar can only come through the narrow end. That tiny opening produces a cry that revitalises the universe and brings down new energy for the year.

So it is with the Jewish soul. When the world closes in, when pressure mounts and it seems like everything is against us, something deep awakens. We remember who we are. We reconnect with our mission. From that narrow place comes the most powerful sound of all, the cry of the Jewish soul.

We are seeing it now. Jews that have dozed through comfort are stirring. Souls that hid in the background are returning to the front line. The narrowness is drawing out what was always there but latent.

So yes, you are being pressured, your buttons are being pushed, and the path ahead seems to be narrowing. You need to choose what’s next. Do you get pushed over the edge, squashed out of existence? Or do you let your soul loose and jump into action? Do you implode with despair? Or explode with new energy?

This is our moment. This is our Exodus. The walls aren’t closing in. They are falling down. The path isn’t narrowing. It is sharpening. The options are reducing to one. To be who we really are.

We are living through the birth pangs of something vast. The pressure is fierce because what wants to emerge is unstoppable. A better world is on its way. We are already in the narrow end of the shofar. And once the sound breaks through, nothing can hold it back.