<div dir="ltr">R Z Sero wrote:<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The mitzvah is to hear, rather than to blow. Lishmoa` kol shofar, not<br>
liskoa` bashofar. [...] Since this is so, why is it that one can't be yotzei if the blower is not obligated in the mitzvah?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We need to hear the cry of a child, but it makes a difference whether it's our child (or indeed a child at all). Trumpets summon us to war, but it makes a difference whether it's blown by a watchman or just some random trumpeter. The same goes for other similar sounds: it's not just the noise, but the identity of the person making it.<br>
<br></div><div>Joe Slater<br></div></div></div></div></div>