Q. Dear Rabbi, I was chosen this year to be the baal tokea for our shul, We have a crowd of a few hundred mitpalelim and I have some questions. First one, should one close his eyes when he is blowing the Shofar?
A. Although closing eyes seems to be the correct thing to do in order to maintain one’s propitious deep Kavanoth and intentions during the compliance of this great mitzva, yet one may still be looking into a sefer with tefilos and special intentions or just following the correct order in the machzor.
(However, I do remember seeing in a Sefer that it is the correct thing to do).
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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