- Q. In the case above, can I just blow the shofar myself? What if I can only do the tekios (long voice) properly, and not the rest of the usual customary different voices?
A. Siach Yitzchok (264) maintains that one should also blow for himself, as Slichos are also recited even when there is no complete minyan to awake and do Teshuva. It is mentioned that the Lubabitcher Rebbeh Zt”l would also follow this tradition when he davened without a minyan.
However, Tzitz Eliezer (12: 48) and others opine that since the Tur quoting Pirkei Derabi Eliezer (46), maintain that when Moshe Rabbenu ascended the mountain the reason for blowing the Shofar during Elul was to remember and remind all the people when Moshe will be coming down from the mountain, therefore the blowing during Elul is only done when there is a minyan.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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