Jews will soon hear the shofar at High Holiday services. Far-right Christians politicians have been blowing it at their rallies all year. Shofars made an appearance onstage at one recent far-right ...

In case of abuse, Report this post. There’s something moving, mystical and even magical about the blowing of the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah. The Shofar is as integral to this holiday as Matzah to ...

When we see, hold, and blow the shofar we acknowledge the light and the beauty that it represents for the future. With other vowels it means to improve one’s actions, shapiru, the most essential ...

To believe that is to commit spiritual suicide. An illustrative photo of a man blowing a shofar, a ceremonial ram's horn, which is done repeatedly on Rosh Hashanah. (photo credit: David Cohen ...

“Every year, I looked forward to those sounds. I began to associate the shofar-blowing with a very mysterious time of year when our huge ‘Cathedral’ synagogue was filled with people dressed ...

You want to help them fulfill the mitzvah of shofar on Rosh Hashanah, so you blow the shofar into the pit. And now the Mishnah’s question: Were they yotzei the mitzvah of shmiyat kol shofar?

Blowing shofar at Har Zion Temple in Penn Valley daily for the month of Elul and for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Cooper is used to the feeling of clenching his shoulders and neck muscles, having ...

Across Chicagoland, Jewish communities took to trails, parks and parking lots to blow the shofar, a ritual wind instrument associated with fall religious holidays. The rousing, echoing call of the ...

“The shofar is such a significant icon,” said Marcel Knobil, who organized the “Blow for Hostages” event. “Some equate it with a sound of crying mothers and how appropriate that is to ...

Some of the most famous moments of our history are tied with the blowing of the shofar. Avraham and Yitzchok at the Akeida, Matan Torah, the battles conquering the land of Israel, and in the daily ...

"The only biblical unique commandment for Rosh Hashanah is to hear the sound of the shofar," he said. "There's many symbolisms and significances to that [horn blowing], but the Torah itself ...