The Blogs: The Shofar: A Source of Memory and Meaning | Mordechai Silverstein

The Blogs: The Shofar: A Source of Memory and Meaning | Mordechai Silverstein

Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Teruah, the day of the sounding of the horn. But what instrument fulfills this mitzvah? The Torah itself does not specify, entrusting the Oral Torah (Torah she’ba‘al peh) to provide clarification.

The sages…

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