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How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues – for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An ...
Today, synagogues everywhere will echo with the blast of the shofar, a ram's horn transformed into a kind of trumpet in a tradition with roots millennia deep. The horn is blown on Rosh Hashanah, which ...
When congregants gather across the Space Coast to celebrate the arrival Friday of Rosh Hashana, it will be punctuated with sweet, but muted moments. This year, as the world grapples with the ...
FORT HUACHUCA, Ariz. – An unusual sound rang out from the Prosser Village Chapel Annex recently – the sound of a shofar being blown. In preparation for Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Benzion Shemtov introduced ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
(The Conversation) — The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High Holidays: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (The Conversation ...
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