A baal teshuvah shared his personal story:
"One Rosh Hashanah, I was in the hospital, and someone came to blow shofar for us. I was non-religious at the time, and I tried to understand what the shofar was all about. They told me some explanations, and then I told them my explanation:
"I told them that I served in the Israeli Navy, on a submarine. The means of communication underwater at the time was Morse code, and I was a Morse code expert. I could send and receive messages very quickly.
"A couple of years after leaving the navy (and spending time in India), I saw an advertisement: The army was looking for a Morse code expert to be in charge of several submarines. The ad instructed interested applicants to apply on a specific day at a certain office between 10:00 and 12:00 noon. I arrived at 11:50. The room was packed with applicants, but no one was being called in. Music played in the background, and I sat down for a few moments and listened. Then I got up, brazenly opened the door to the office, and said, 'I came for the interview.'
"Many people are waiting in line ahead of you," the secretary said. "And you just arrived. Please wait for your turn."
"I didn’t listen to her. I walked past her, straight into the room, and chatted with the commander. After speaking briefly, I was hired for the job."
The interviewer went out to the waiting room and said, "Thank you all for coming, and I'm sorry about the delay. We have already hired someone. You can all go home."
"It isn't fair,” they all shouted. “This man came in last. Why did you interview him before us?"
"Didn't you hear the music?" the man said. "Listen carefully. Don’t you get it? It's Morse code. It says: 'If you've come for the interview, just open the door and come inside.' This man heard the message. You didn’t. You are clearly not as fluent in the language as he is."
The irreligious man said that he thinks the shofar is speaking a language, only it needs to be deciphered. If you could understand the language, you would hear the shofar telling us, “Just open the door and come inside. Come to Hashem. He is waiting for you.”
