The origin for blowing shofar in Elul, says the Tur- is related to the first Elul the Jews were in the desert. Moshe Rabbeinu went up to the Heavens for forty days and nights after Matan Torah, to bring down the Luchos to Klal Yisroel. On the seventeenth of Tamuz Klal Yisroel miscalculated and thinking that Moshe wasn’t coming down, made the golden calf. Moshe came down and saw that Klal Yisroel sinned, he dropped the Luchos and they shattered at the foot of Mt. Sinai. The next day Moshe went back up for a second set of forty days and nights to beg Hashem for forgiveness for Klal Yisroel. On the last day of Av Hashem told Moshe bring me two tablets and I shall rewrite the Luchos for Klal Yisroel. Moshe came down and related all that happened to Klal Yisroel and on Rosh Chodesh Elul he went back up for a third and final set of forty days and nights this time to bring down the second Luchos. That first day of Elul they blew the shofar to notify all when Moshe went up and that they shall not come to make the same mistake that they made the first time Moshe went up. Since that Elul we blow shofar every day in Elul to commemorate and try to relive those special days Klal Yisroel had in the Midbar.
The question is why did they only blow shofar the third time Moshe went up? Why weren’t they scared of making the same mistake on the eighteenth day of Tamuz, the second time Moshe went up?
What do you think?
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