Posted on 09/19/2011 12:05:05 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Jews around the world gathered on Sunday for first-ever global Shofar FlashMob hosted by Art Kibbutz NYC, the newly-launched international artist community.
The event was meant to give the Jewish tradition of sounding the Shofar daily during the Hebrew month of Elul a 21st century post-modern twist.
The Shofar, traditionally made from a ram’s horn, was used in Biblical times for many purposes, including announcing the new month, to herald the commencement of the festivals and in battle.
Besides being sounded during Elul, the Shofar is also sounded on Rosh Hashanah and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur. There are ten reasons given for blowing the shofar on the High Holydays, the most well known of them a reminder of the willingness of the Patriarch Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac to G-d until a voice from heaven told him not to touch the boy. He sacrificed a ram whose horns were entangled in a nearby bush instead.
The Shofar FlashMob took place in several locations around New York City as well as in other cities in the United States. FlashMobs also took place in Jerusalem, in Budapest, in Kiev, Ukraine, and in Tbilisi, Georgia. The video below shows the FlashMob held in Chicago:
Video
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
A Shofar lesson.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6iNXRVN-WE
hooooooo-oooooonk!
Shofar, sho good!
Are you serious?
Nah, they’ll throw briskets at them!
This piece is not very enlightening regarding the reason for doing this. I know little about Judaism, so maybe I am just being dense.
In the original article it says that the blowing of the shofar is “a call for teshuvah (repentance)”. But isn’t it always? There is no mention of why it was done in large numbers except so that the artist could use the vids in an “electronic greeting card”.
I was hoping for an explanation that was somewhat more elevated or, at least, hinted at some sort of call for Jews to unite against the worldwide attacks against them.
What am I missing?
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Are you kidding? Brisket is too expensive. Chicken wings.
It’s that, too. But mainly, he wants to make greetings cards.
oy vey! :)
Pretty shallow, IMO.
True enough. I’m almost sorry I posted it, mostly because of the ‘flash mob’ thing, which makes the hair stand up on my neck.
For full explanation of Shofar, its influence on prayer and its historical antecedents going back to the Temple sacrifices,
go to:
Hearing Shofar
Shofar Blog
http://hearingshofar.blogspot.com
At least it’s not a flash bris.
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