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A shofar (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ f ɑːr / [1] shoh-FAR; from שׁוֹפָר , pronounced ⓘ) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by varying the player's embouchure.
Initially, the blasts made by the ram's horn were blown during the first standing prayer on the Jewish New Year, but by a rabbinic edict, it was enacted that they be blown only during the Mussaf-prayer, because of an incident that happened, whereby congregants who blew the horn during the first standing prayer were suspected by their enemies of staging a war-call and were massacred. [2]
Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription of the Hebrew Bible to "raise a noise" on Yom Teruah. Eating symbolic foods that represent various wishes for the new year is an ancient custom recorded in the Talmud . [ 2 ]
The symbol was ultimately revised to be , "ram's horn", with a rounded top, in order to better differentiate it from the Latin gamma ɣ . [4] Unicode provides U+0264 ɤ LATIN SMALL LETTER RAMS HORN, but in some fonts this character may appear as a "baby gamma" instead. The superscript IPA version is U+10791 ޑ MODIFIER LETTER SMALL RAMS HORN. [5]
Ram’s horn or ram horn usually refers to the spiral bony projection grown on the head of a male sheep (ram). It may also refer to: Ram's Horn (restaurant), a restaurant chain based in Detroit, Michigan, US; Ram's horn (shoe), or pigache, a type of shoe with a long, pointed, turned up toe; Bukkehorn, an ancient Scandinavian musical instrument ...
The Sumerian si was the ordinary word for animal horn. Literary references show that as an instrument it was played in the streets by the herald who delivered public announcements. The Jewish shofar is perhaps the best-known animal-horn trumpet. It is usually made from a ram's horn, though the horn of any kosher animal other than a cow or calf ...
The ram, the he-goat, the great horn and the four new horns [ edit ] The symbols of the ram and he-goat, explained in the text of Daniel 8 as representing the kings of Persia and Greece , are drawn from the constellations that preside over Persia and Syria in Hellenistic astrology . [ 22 ]
Jupiter Ammon, depicted in a terracotta fragment. A fossil ammonite, showing its horn-like spiral. Ammon, eventually Amon-Ra, was a deity in the Egyptian pantheon whose popularity grew over the years, until growing into a monotheistic religion in a way similar to the proposal that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic deity evolved out of the Ancient Semitic pantheon. [2]