(RNS and NPR) — The shofar marks moments of heightened experience and emotion — and the Jewish new year.

It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues – for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An ...

The Zohar associates its sounding with the transformation of din, judgment, into rachamim, compassion or mercy. The shofar does not merely announce judgment. At the mystical level, its cry ...

At its core, the shofar is the sound of self-sacrifice. It echoes Abraham’s willingness to sublimate his own wishes to those ...

Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, begins at sunset Friday. For many Jews around the world, a highlight of the holiday will be hearing the shofar: an animal's horn blown like a trumpet.

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Of all the commandments in the Torah, the blowing of the shofar on the Jewish New Year is one of the most important. The ancient sound — signaling the beginning of the days of repentance — is heard on ...

The shofar blasts and then pierces. It goes inside, cleanses. There is but one mitzvah - a commandment of Jewish law - for the Jewish New Year: Hear the sound of the shofar. Rosh Hashanah was in ...

Members of Ramat Hasharon’s garin torani sounded the shofar at various locations across the city, reaching residents with the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael ...

(The Conversation) — The shofar is used on many different occasions in the Bible. But today, for many Jews, it is most associated with the High Holidays: Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. (The Conversation ...