Q. In our small weekday minyan we have a problem getting someone to blow the Shofar daily…
If we could not make minyan on that day, do we still blow the shofar?

A. Whether Tekias Shofor during Elul requires a Minyan or no, would depend on the reason we blow. Tzitz Eliezer (12:48) writes that according to the motive of not forgetting the day when Moshe Rabeinu went up to Mount Sinai, this blowing may have been instituted only for a congregation. He also argues that even if the reason is the awakening before Rosh Hashono for performing Teshuvo, it may still require a Minyan, since a communal stirring is more effective than an individual one. However, Siach Yitzchok (264), Nitei Gavriel (Rosh Hashono 4:9) and others, rule that even a yochid (individual) who davens on his own, if he has a Shoifor should blow.

Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a agrees with this last opinion.

Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a.