The emphasis on Shuv

00:00 There are two aspects: ratzo and shov—yearning upward and returning below. I once heard a chossid say that the Rebbe’s shofar blasts were like this: the first tekiah was relatively long, as long as required by halachah. Then came the shevarim-teruah, and the tekiah after them was even longer. The Rebbe’s final tekiah was always longer than the first. The tekiah after the shevarim-teruah was longer than the first tekiah. He explained to me that Chassidus says the first tekiah is ratzo, and the last tekiah is shov. With the Rebbe, the shov was higher than the ratzo, [unclear] down below. That is why it was expressed in the shofar blasts. Clearly, the main thing is shov, but you cannot have one without the other. You cannot have just one thing—just Torah study without ratzo, without the yearning. You have to remember the soul as it was above; there was nothing physical there. The soul—that is the essence of a Jew, that he is connected to... What is a Jew? It is what the soul was above in Gan Eden. But the main thing comes afterward, here below: shov. You see many things like this with the Rebbe.