What Is A Shofar?
Reflections on an Ancient Instrument
This Rosh Hashana, we will blow the shofar 100 times per day, but what is a shofar? Here is an incomplete list of shofaric associations:
A Shofar is
A sign of salvation and hope in the midst of despondency and horror. (Symbolizing the ram in the thicket that Abraham sees just as he thinks he is condemned to sacrifice his son).
A trumpet blast for battle (…
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