How significant are the sounds of the Shofar?
Compiled by Rabbi Mordechai Z. Hecht
Shofar introduction
The Shofar -- the traditional horn, although it comes in but one bent shape, it comes in various sizes, it’s the rams horn or a goats horn we blow on Rosh Hashanah (except when the holiday falls out on Shabbat) and at the end of Yom Kippur in the synagogue.
The question is, how important and how significant are these shofar sounds? Come to think of it, there is nothing else like it in the entire Jewish calendar. In Judaism we have Prayers, Torah study or hands on mitzvoth, this is the only musical/instrumental mitzvah of it’s kind, which is practiced in our days, in the exile – when we are not united i… Read More »