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size=2>From: Micha Berger <A
href="mailto:micha@aishdas.org">micha@aishdas.org</A><BR><BR>>>However,
the sound of the gemara's word "yelulei", echoed in the Rambam<BR>(Shofar 3:2)
"hayelala shemeyalelan hanashim be'eis shemeyavevin", made<BR>me wonder if
"yevavah" really means sobbing, or inarticulate voicing<BR>in
general.<BR><BR>When a Middle Eastern ululates, crying a high pitched
"lalalalalala",<BR>it's a sound of joy. (If the woman in question is the Eim
Sisera of the<BR>100 qolos, maybe she is happy her son died a hero, a shahid.)
Ululate is<BR>an onomatopoeia (a word that sounds like its meaning), so could
"yelilah".<BR><BR>And so, the machloqes isn't only technical, how do we fulfil
"yom<BR>teru'ah yihyeh lahem" but also be about the basic nature of shofar
--<BR>is it a sad sound, or a happy one?<<<BR></FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=2>The women ululate at funerals, too. The sobbing sound can be a
sound of joy or of grief. If you've ever heard the inarticulate sounds
made by some woman who just won a big prize on *The Price is Right* you would
know that, unless you could see her face, you would not know if she was sobbing
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size=2>There's no opinion I ever heard that Sisra's mother was crying for
joy. She was definitely crying with grief, believing that her son had been
defeated in battle and was dead, but her handmaidens "comforted" her by
suggesting that maybe Sisra was late because he was busy looting and raping
Jewish women with his men. It tells you what kind of a person she was
that the thought of her son engaged in killing and rapine would
comfort her and dry her tears. </FONT></DIV>
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size=2>As for the sound of a shofar, it obviously has a lot of different
meanings and purposes. It can be sorrowful, joyful, a sound of alarm, a
sound of war, a sound of triumph. In a way it's like a musical instrument
-- like a trumpet -- that likewise can express many emotions.</DIV>
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