We're up to the 8th pasuk of Shofarot. כׇּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵ֖ל וְשֹׁ֣כְנֵי אָ֑רֶץ כִּנְשֹׂא־נֵ֤ס הָרִים֙ תִּרְא֔וּ וְכִתְקֹ֥עַ שׁוֹפָ֖ר תִּשְׁמָֽעוּ׃ {ס
All inhabitants of the world, and the dwellers of the earth will see that there was an ingathering of Klal Yisrael, as if a banner were raised. You'll see it (just like when a banner, a flag goes up, everyone sees it), And you'll hear it like a shofar were sounded.
This is referring to the shofar of Mashiach in the future, but interestingly, it doesn't actually say that a shofar will be blown. We know that from the previous pasuk. Here, it says it's going to be known like a banner and a shofar.
The simple explanation, from commentaries including the Chida and the Radak say that normally, to send a message out, you need messengers (or text or WhatsApp today) or whatever other means of communications there will be at that time, but this message will not need to go through the regular communication channels. It will just be clear on its own. It will just be clear that Mashiach is here.
Furthermore, this future blowing will happen wherever anyone lives- in the tevel (which we translate as the world) or the shochne aretz/ earth
This language is seemingly superfluous. First it says, yoshveh/to dwell. Then it says, shochne which is more like a hovering of sorts (like Shechina). And first it says Tevel and then it says aretz
What's the difference? The Malbim says, כׇּל־יֹשְׁבֵ֥י תֵבֵ֖ל means they're spread out all over the place, in the furthest spots. They're out there in Australia, and the farthest reaching places. That's what Yoshveh Tevel means, any corner of the earth. And he says Shochneh Aretz are uninhabited areas. So Shochne Aretz means it's going to get out to the people that have no Internet and no phone lines. It'll get out to the Navajo Indian tribes in Arizona. The words will get there. That's how powerful this message will be. That's one explanation.
The Abarbanel offers an entirely different explanation. One of the reasons we blow the shofar is to remind us of the shofar of the future and are different aspects of that. One is the fact that it's going to announce the coming of Mashiach. But there's another aspect that it's going to cause the dead to come out of the earth. That is another thing that we're looking forward to. Every day, we talk about Mechaye Metim. This is a wondrous event. Just imagine the bodies coming out of the ground! God is going to do that like He created the world. It's a wonder of wonders. And he says, that's the meaning of our pasuk (Abarbanel on Vayikra 23,32)
Yoshvei Tevel are the people that are above the ground and Shochne Aretz are those that dwell in the ground, like it says in the pasuk in Yeshay 261,9, Wake up Shochne afar/those that are dwelling in the dirt.
And he says כִּנְשֹׂא־נֵ֤ס is not the not the raising of a banner, but rather, the uplifting of the miracle of Tehiyat Hameitim. It's going to become clear. And when those dead people, yishmahu/they'll be able to hear the shofar. They're going to get up with all their senses working.
So according to the Abarbanel, this pasuk is talking about the Techiyat Hametim aspect of Mashiach's coming.
Lastly, the Sefer Bina L'Itim says this message is for those people that are dwelling in the land, who made this world permanent. They forgot that this world is only temporary. That's the message of the shofar- it's a teshuva message to get to those people that have misplaced priorities. They put their priorities on the earth versus the heavens.
Regardless, this is a pasuk referring to the future shofar. Whether it's talking about the message of Mashiach's coming that spreads across the world, or talking about the miracle of Techiyat Hametim, this is something that we have to strengthen our Emuna in.
When you say this pasuk, close your eyes and imagine these things happening. Imagine that the world suddenly just gets the message, Mashiach is here. It's going to happen.
Rav Chaim Volozhin once said "Mashiach is going to come when I'm sitting and eating breakfast after I come home from shul, and my wife will come running in and say, 'Chaim, what are you doing sitting there eating breakfast? Mashiach's here!'"
Pitom Yavo, says the Navi, He's going to come suddenly. It's a pasuk in Melachi 3,1that says,
וּפִתְאֹם֩ יָב֨וֹא אֶל־הֵיכָל֜וֹ הָאָד֣וֹן
Suddenly he will come to his palace, the master that you are looking for.
Yehuda HaChasid, in his sefer Gemtriot letter 230 cites another pasuk in Mishleh that says, כִּֽי־פִ֭תְאֹם יָק֣וּם אֵידָ֑ם וּפִ֥יד שְׁ֝נֵיהֶ֗ם Suddenly will come up their downfall. And who knows the downfall of both of them?
If we take the first letters of the words
יָק֣וּם אֵידָ֑ם וּפִ֥יד שְׁ֝נֵיהֶ֗ם
it spells יאוש/despair.
But he cites this other pasuk,וּפִתְאֹם֩ יָב֨וֹא אֶל־הֵיכָל֜וֹ הָאָד֣וֹן
Suddenly the master will come and he says, these two pitoms, these two Suddenlies are connected, to tell us that when all is lost and we're giving up hope and we're despairing, that's when he comes. We have to realize, the worse it looks, the more hope we have. This is a very important point.
Stop getting nervous. 'Who's going to win the elections? We have to all move to Israel if this candidate wins!' or whatever it may be. When those feelings come into your head, you have to say, I'm giving up hope? Ye'ush? That's when it's going to happen!
When we see that there's nothing else to do and we realize, It's all Hashem, then it happens.
That's why we have to strengthen our emunah on Rosh Hashanah, especially in what's going to happen in the future, and that's why we read these three pesukim about the future.