There are three types of shofars that may be blown on Rosh Hashanah. The optimal shofar is the horn of a ram. If a ram’s horn is not available, then the horn of any kosher animal other than a ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. The one who blows the shofar produces the sound from within his or her body. The force of the shofar is breath, in Hebrew, ruah – spirit.

The Glickmans, for three generations, have been our shofar blowers here in this congregation. SERPER: Marshall Glickman became Temple Beth Am’s Ba’al Tekiah, or the one who sounds the shofar ...

The shofar is the only Torah-mandated commandment of the day. In fact, it is the very definition of the day which is called in the Torah “ Yom Teruah ” (Bamidbar 29:1) – a day of the blowing ...

There are three distinct calls of the shofar, which are blown in specific pattern combinations. These include tekiah, one long blast; shevarim, three medium sounds; and teruah, nine short blasts.

Sound of shofar marks Jewish High Holy Days The shofar is blown as Jews mark High Holy Days September 23, 2023 at 3:31 a.m. by Frank E. Lockwood ...

Shofar Wave kicked off on Sept. 20, the second day of Rosh Hashanah, at 3 p.m. outside Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center and culminated abut 44 miles away at 4 p.m. in Thousand Oaks.

While the shofar’s first blasts have always brought me to tears, the tears of this Elul, Elul 5784, will be painfully and dramatically different. These will be tears of loss, of heaviness and of ...

The leader of Temple Kol Emeth made history on Tuesday when he interrupted his morning devotion in the Georgia House with a sharp blast of a shofar, a ram’s horn trumpet traditionally blown by ...

Outdoor shofar events have also drawn curiosity from non-Jews. A member of the local parks board reached out to Chani Shemtov this year to let her know he was moved by the sound.

Three generations of a Jewish family haved all sounded the shofar. The blast of the shofar during the High Holy Days, says Rabbi Irwin Tanenbaum, "sends a shiver.