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    A shofar (/ʃoʊˈfɑːr/ shoh-FAR; from שׁוֹפָר‎, pronounced [ʃoˈfar] ) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious...
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    humanity's role in God's world. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar (a hollowed-out ram's horn), as prescribed in the Torah, following the prescription...
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    blowing of the shofar (Hebrew: תקיעת שופר, Hebrew pronunciation: [t(e)kiˈ(ʔ)at ʃoˈfaʁ]) is a ritual performed by Jews on Rosh Hashanah. The shofar is a musical...
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  • of the Shofar is a Jewish self-help and self-awareness organization. Call of the Shofar or Kol Shofar may also refer to: The Call of the Shofar and Other...
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  • Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Purdue University Press on behalf of...
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    communities, Psalms 27 is added at the end of morning and evening prayers. The shofar (ram's horn) is blown at the end of morning services on weekdays, and in...
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  • Call of the Shofar was an organization based in Baltimore, US, focusing on personal and relational transformation. Call of the Shofar offers workshops...
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    Congregation Kol Shofar is a Conservative synagogue founded in 1962 and located in Tiburon, Marin County, California, in the United States. The congregation...
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    be removed from the ark during this procession. In a few communities a shofar is sounded after each circuit. Hoshana Rabbah is known as the last of the...
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    tradition of hearing shofar on Elul, plus meditations on the sound of shofar for each day of the month, can be found at The Shofar of Elul Jewels of Elul:...
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  • communities it is called shofar mehuppach, "reversed horn", either because of the above reason, or because it faces the other way from shofar holekh (munakh)....
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    Yemenite Jew blows shofar, 1947...
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    description of the inauguration of the months, laws on the form and use of the shofar and laws related to the religious services during the Jewish holiday of...
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    Period. Salpinx contests were a part of the original Olympic Games. The Shofar, made from a ram horn and the Hatzotzeroth, made of metal, are both mentioned...
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    ISBN 978-3-11-087910-0. OCLC 1089437441. Taylor 1971, pp. 10, 11. "Sound the great shofar for our freedom, raise the banner to gather our exiles and gather us together...
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    and on Yom Kippur in the Eastern Ashkenazic and Italian rites: A great shofar will be blown, and a small still voice will be heard. The angels will make...
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    year, Choi signed with Shofar Music as a solo artist. Choi chose this label because she used to perform regularly at 'Café Shofar', ever since her first...
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  • American author Shai Afsai published an article in the academic triannual Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies asserting that the stories...
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  • describe the long hundred of six score or 120. There are 100 blasts of the Shofar heard in the service of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. A religious Jew...
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    or "Day of Remembrance", and Yom Teruah, or "Day of the Sounding of the Shofar"). Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year (literally, "head of the year")...
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    (Exodus 25:4). Its horns can be used instead of sheep's horn to make a shofar. On Yom Kippur, the festival of the Day of Atonement, two goats were chosen...
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    since the early 1990s. Through 'Shofar', Yitzhak has launched two widely distributed weekly newspapers, Arba Kanfot and Shofar News geared to the Haredi public...
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  • their stores. The third shofar blow told the people of the city that it was time to light the shabbos candles. The last shofar blows told the people that...
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    Zablon Simintov زابلون سیمینتوف Simintov holding a Shofar in March 2005 Born 1959 (age 64–65) Herat, Kingdom of Afghanistan Nationality Israeli Other names...
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    conclusion of Yom Kippur, young Jews persistently flouted the shofar ban each year and blew the shofar resulting in their arrest and prosecution. They were usually...
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    Youth (赤頬思春期, Akahō Shishunki), is a South Korean musical act formed by Shofar Music in 2016. They appeared on Superstar K6 in 2014 before signing a contract...
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    the shofar at the Kotel Katan. The police arrested the boy and seized his shofar. They let him go after three hours of questioning, keeping the shofar. He...
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    recorder rubab salamiyyah sarangi (Indian) sarangi (Nepali) sasando shehnai shofar sinfonia sitar smallpipes snare drum sopilka spilåpipa steel guitar steelpan...
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    Greater kudu horn shofar...
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    Sprachen: '... in einem Stockwerk des innern babylonischen Turmes. ..'". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 23 (4). West Lafayette...
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