The Call of the Shofar
Have you ever been driving along the highway when, seemingly out of nowhere, you hear the shrill sound of sirens? At first you are startled as the high-pitched sound seems to engulf you from almost every direction. Instinctively you try to locate the vehicles producing the loud, echoing sounds. At the same time, you begin to ease your car over to the side of the road, as the law requires. FinallyGet More Articles—Subscribe Today!
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I have been woken out of my sleep to the sound of the horns. I heard the horn blow a few times, one after the other. This has happened more than once. What could it mean?
Can anyone blow the horn? A Baptist member, is that a okay?
Of course you can, as long as you know and learn the proper use of it, how it sounds like it. By using the Numbers 10:5–8, as is the second type, teruah, which consists of nine staccato blasts. Shevarim is three short blasts. One long, sustained sound is called tekiah gedolah, or the great tekiah. On Rosh Hashanah, the sounds are called out in a particular order: Tekiah—shevarim—teruah—tekiah—tekiah—shevarim—tekiah—tekiah—teruah—tekiah gedolah.
Youtube it so you learn.
God called me to blow the ram’s horn (shofar) in Kenya. I just got back. From 5 weeks going across that nation from Nairobi to Lodwar. It was an incredible experience. Thank you for your article. I will be posting photos next week. It was overwhelmingly received everywhere I went.
I am not Jewish…I am grafted in.