For beginner blowers, he has a recommendation: "Calmly, not by force. I see people trying to blow the trumpet and their faces turn red. You need to know how to inhale and exhale correctly. It's a technique with the lips, not with the whole body. You have to know how to get the air out without pressure." Shimon wants to talk about a painful phenomenon. "Sometimes blowers bring me their shofars and I find a crack or a hole in them. Sometimes I recognize that a correction has been made to the shofar in order to camouflage the hole or crack, and this is an invalid shofar, of course. Anyone who buys a shofar must verify its origin."
Moving human stories have happened to him over the years: "A blower came to me who was injured in a work accident and his lower lip was damaged. I mobilized all my abilities. I sat with him for many hours and managed to make a mouthpiece with a spout that would hold the lower part of the lip. He went out with the shofar with great excitement."
