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Jewish "Slichot" prayer service with shofar during the Days of Repentance preceding Yom Kippur at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, 2008. The Sages indicated that the mitzvah was to hear the sounds of the shofar.
In Ashkenazi and Sephardic communities, it is customary to hear 100 or 101 or 102 sounds in the synagogue on Rosh Hashanah morning, although the minimum requirement is to hear 30 sounds. The sounds are scheduled as follows: 30 shofar blasts are sounded to fulfill the mitzvah of shofar blowing, after the Torah reading and before Mussaf. In many ...
Jewish elder blowing the ram's horn (shofar) Sequence of shofar sounds: tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah. The best-known ritual of Rosh Hashanah is the blowing of the shofar, a musical instrument made from an animal horn.
The cacophonous wail of the shofar was loud, mournful and lasted nearly two minutes as dozens of Jews blew on rams' horns Sunday to wake up others to the plight of the estimated 100 hostages still ...
Barukh ata Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam, asher kid'shanu b'mitzvotav v'tzivanu li'shmoa kol shofar. Blessed are You, L ORD our God, King of the universe, Who has sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us to hear the sound of the shofar. Sukkot: For sitting in the sukkah for a meal
Ashkenazi-style shofar. The shofar is used during the High Holy Days. In Judaism, the High Holy Days, also known as High Holidays or Days of Awe (Yamim Noraim; Hebrew: יָמִים נוֹרָאִים , Yāmīm Nōrāʾīm) consist of: strictly, the holidays of Rosh Hashanah ("Jewish New Year") and Yom Kippur ("Day of Atonement");
"Turning round". Originally written like a sideways U, like a U turn. In printed books, it has a V shape, possibly because that was easier for the early printers to make. In Sephardi communities it is called shofar mehuppach, "reversed horn", either because of the above reason, or because it faces the other way from shofar holekh (munakh).
Excitement included, the day still felt somewhat unceremonious, oddly normal, rather ho-hum. It was almost like Soto had been familiar with Port St. Lucie for five years already.