Guide
Blowing the Shofar
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The Mishnah on Blowing the Shofar
3:2. All horns may be used except for that of a cow, because it is [called] a keren. R. Yosi said: Are not all horns called keren, as it says: When they make a long blast with the ram’s horn [keren],…
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The Shofar as Eliciting Divine Mercy
Judah bar Naḥmani in the name of R. Simeon ben Lakish expounded: God [Elohim] ascends amid acclamation; the Lord [Yhwh] to the blasts of the shofar (Psalm 47:6). When the Holy One ascends to sit on…