Fired Before Rosh Hashanah

Can you believe it? The Jews are not letting me, my old job. I had this job already for 20 years. I want my job. He goes, "What's your job?" He goes, "I'm a bell toller." He goes, "What's that?" "I blow the horn for the Jews." He goes, "Okay, so what's the problem?" He goes, "No, they fired me." He goes, "You know, okay, so they fired you, they'll find somebody else." "No, Your Highness. You know why they fired me? Because I became like you. I became a Christian like you." King said, "What? Fired you because you became a Christian? I'll come." King Hamashimo comes over there. "Okay, we're going to take care of the Jews. They don't give me a job, let's slaughter all of them." You know, the may sub to Jacob, it's halacha. They look for a reason to kill us. But anyway, he brings the king to the Jews, says, "Listen, you got to give him his job back." So, the rabbi is smart. He goes, "Listen, we can't mess with the king. The guy, you can mess, you know, you can say no, but the king came, you know, you say no to the king, he kills everybody." But the rabbi, the chacham, says, "Your Highness, you must know, with your wisdom, what's the most important day of the year for the Jews?" So, the king says, "Uh, well, of course, it's uh, your Yom Kippur." So, the rabbi says, "Exactly, Your Highness. That's what we're going to do. Because of you, we're going to give him, we're going to give him the mitzvah of blowing the shofar on Yom Kippur." For the killer. King's happy. "Thank you very much for honoring me. Problem." But the rasha, the mumal, said, "Hey, hey, hey, no, it's not good. Your Highness, they're they're tricking us here." He goes, "What do you want?" He goes, "Yeah, you blow the shofar on Yom Kippur, but it's not even an obligation, it's a minhag. It's a minhag to blow the shofar on on Yom Kippur. It's not it's not an obligation. The real obligation is on Rosh Hashanah." The king says, "You're still complaining? You're still They're giving you the biggest day, you're still complaining? More important day, less important day, get out of here already." The king kicked him out already. Point being, Abba Tai, is that shofar is a big deal in Judaism.