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A ram's horn that's been the original alarm clock for three thousand years.
means A ritual instrument made from a ram's horn, sounded in Jewish worship most notably during Rosh Hashanah and at the close of Yom Kippur.
from From Hebrew shofar (שׁוֹפָר), 'ram's horn.' It belongs to an old Semitic family of words — possibly related to Akkadian sapparu, a kind of wild goat or horned animal — and the instrument itself is ancient, threaded through the Hebrew Bible as a summons to battle, to assembly, and to awe before God.
- oldest instrument
- Still played essentially unchanged since biblical times
- no mouthpiece
- Sound comes from your buzzing lips alone
- walls of jericho
- Seven shofars allegedly toppled a fortified city
- hidden notes
- Four ritual blasts each carry distinct meaning
- not just rams
- Kudu, antelope, even goat horns qualify
rosh hashanah shofar blast — 100 blasts sounded each year during jewish new year observance in synagogues worldwide
yemenite shofar tradition — ram's horn shofars hand-crafted in yemen and israel, used in yemenite jewish communities since ancient times
temple mount shofar — shofar sounded at western wall in jerusalem daily, marking end of shabbat and jewish holidays