Blowing the Shofar Rosh Hashanah

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Shofar (by Alphonse Lévy) Caption says: "To a good year"

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A shofar [ʃoˈfaʁ] (Hebrew: שׁוֹפָר is a horn, traditionally that of a ram, used for Jewish religious purposes. Shofar blowing is incorporated in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Shofars come in a variety of sizes.

The shofar Rosh Hashanah

The shofar Rosh Hashanah: The modern Jewish synagogue has preserved in its ceremonial, among other customs, the use of the shofar, translated in the English version of the Bible "cornet." Several times during the service on New Year's day, or Bosh hashanah, at the conclusion of the Day of Atonement, on the seventh day of the festival of Tabernacles or Sukkoth, Hosh'ana Raba, and during the entire month of Ellul, after the recital of the supplications or Selichoth, the shofar is sounded. Its use on all these occasions is not general and probably never was, but it still survives in many places. For the New Year's service it is the characteristic feature.

The shofar is usually made of a ram's horn, straightened and flattened by heat. All natural horns can be shaped either by heat or by cooking in oil.

The bore of the instrument is a cylindrical tube of very small caliber, which opens into a kind of bell of parabolic form.

It is not only the solitary ancient musical instrument actually preserved in the Mosaic ritual, but is the oldest form of wind instrument known to be retained in use in the world.

EXPLANATION OF PLATE XCVII. Shofars And Other Horns.

1. Modern shofar, ordinary form. (Cat. No. 154402.) 2. Shofar, Italian form. (Cat. No. 95142.)

3. African war horn (antelope). (Cat. No. 4960.), 4. Shringa. (Cat. No. 92709. India.)

5. Siamese copper horn. (Cat. No. 27293.), 6. Large African war horn of ivory, from plaster cast in National Museum. (Original in museum of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.) (Cat. No. 94892.)

7. Small African war horn of ivory, from plaster cast in National Museum. (Original in museum of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.) (Cat. No. 94893.), 8. Ivory war horn. (Cat. No. 127193. Byanzi, Africa.)

9. African war horn. (Cat. No. 5412.) 10. Embuchi; Ivory war horn. (Cat. No. 4793. Pala Ballas, Africa.)

11. Ivory war horn. (Cat. No. 4793. West coast of Africa.), 12. Ivory war horn. (Cat. No. 127195. Byanzi, Africa.)

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TEXT and IMAGE CREDIT: The Shofar. Author: Cyrus Adler. Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1894. Original from: the University of Michigan. Digitized: May 18, 2010. Length: 14 pages. Subjects: Shofar

Feast of trumpets Rosh Hashanah Tashlich

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Feast of trumpets Date 1884 Dimensions: 47 × 64.5 cm (18.5 × 25.4 in) Current location: National Museum in Warsaw (NMW) by Ignacy Aleksander Gierymski (born 30 January 1850 in Warsaw, died between 6 and 8 March 1901 in Rome) (oil on canvas) Painting of Hasidic Jews performing tashlikh (ritual washing away of sins) on Rosh Hashanah, placed on the banks of the Vistula River in Warsaw.

Tashlich, During the afternoon of the first day occurs the practice of tashlikh, in which prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Many have the custom of throwing bread or pebbles into the water, to symbolize the "casting off" of sins. In some communities, if the first day of Rosh Hashanah occurs on Shabbat, tashlikh is postponed until the second day.

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Rosh Hashanah, Man wearing tallit with boy in New York City

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Rosh Hashanah, Man wearing tallit with boy in New York City. TITLE: Jewish life and customs (Rosh Hashanah), New York City, ca. CALL NUMBER: LOT 10892 (F) [P&P] RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Man, wearing tallit, looking at the TANAKH with boy in New York City.

SUMMARY: Photographs show Jewish life and customs, New York City, ca. 1905-15. Celebrating Jewish New Year; peddlers; character portraits; receiving free matzohs; exhibition of Jewish Farmers of America, 1909.

Digital ID: cph 3b41830 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-95685 (b&w film copy neg.) Retrieve uncompressed archival TIFF version (1,492 kilobytes). MEDIUM: ca. 38 photographic prints. CREATED/PUBLISHED: ca, 1905-1915.

NOTES: This record contains unverified, old data from shelflist card. Forms part of the George Grantham Bain Collection. Photos mounted and captioned. Purchase; D.J. Culver; 1948.

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Rosh Hashanah (Rosh ha Shanah)

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Rosh hashanah: "The New Year." The origin of this festival is given in Leviticus xxiii. 23—25: "And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first of the, month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work." And also in Numbers xxix. 1: "And in the seventh month, on the first of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you."

Though not one of the three great festivals, on each of which the male population of Israel was to appear before the Lord; it is, nevertheless, considered as one of the first among the principal holidays, has as such been celebrated by the Israelites since the giving of the law, and is known by the name of Rosh hashanah, or " new year."

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TITLE: Shofar. Sabbath Horn. Yemenite Jew. CALL NUMBER: LC-M32- 7134[P&P], REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-03282 (digital file from original photo), No known restrictions on publication. MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in. CREATED, PUBLISHED: [between 1934 and 1939]

Digital ID: matpc 03282 Source: digital file from original photo Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-matpc-03282 (digital file from original photo) Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Retrieve higher resolution JPEG version (97 kilobytes)

CREATOR: Matson Photo Service, photographer., NOTES: Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

FORMAT: Dry plate negatives. PART OF: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original photo) matpc 03282 hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.03282, CARD #: mpc2004005214/PP

Rosh Hashanah occurs on the first and second days of Tishri. In Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah means, literally, "head of the year" or "first of the year." Rosh Hashanah is commonly known as the Jewish New Year. (Rosh Hashanah FULL TEXT)

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the creation of the world and is a time for reflection and self evaluation. It is one of the Jewish tradition's holiest days, the days when Jews most commonly attend services at synagogue. Rosh Hashanah begins this year (2006) on the evening of September 22nd. How We celebrate Rosh ha Shanah FULL TEXT

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