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What’s a “shofar”?

[Hieronymus]

What’s a “shofar”?

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A ceremonial Jewish horn, most notably employed on Jericho and by Gabriel to bring this mess to a close.

It is also a pun on “book” or “scroll” once one knocks out the vowels and applies some imagination.

I think that they are also blown to begin the Sabbath year, but I don’t guarantee I have that detail quite right, and I need to get back to class prep.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The guy who drives your car. ;-)

[stars & stripes forever]

A shofar is a trumpet made from the horn of a kosher animal with the marrow removed. The central mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) is to hear the shofar being blown—often in synagogue, ideally as part of the prayer service.

Christians also use the shofars for prayer.

Joshua and his men blew the shofars when the walls of Jericho tumbled down.