No matter how many times I’ve heard it, the blast of the shofar startles me. It cuts through the synagogue, through the chatter in my mind, through the weight I’m carrying from the past year. In that ...
KINGSTON, N.Y. — In Jewish congregations around the world, Rosh Hashana will be celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 23. This year, at Congregation Agudas Achim, the annual High Holy Day new year’s ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
Sarah Pessin does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
How the spiritual sound of the shofar shapes the Jewish new year – a Jewish studies scholar explains
Mark Lipof blows a shofar during the lead-up to Yom Kippur at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Mass., in 2010. Michael Fein/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images It’s the Jewish High ...
At sundown on Monday, Sept. 22, Jews around the world will gather to mark Rosh Hashanah — the birthday of creation, the day on which we acknowledge our past and pray for our future. This year, as we ...
Sometimes awakening doesn’t come with thunder. It comes with an ancient sound — quiet, simple, and pure. A sound that touches the soul. That sound is the shofar. Every day of the month of Elul, except ...
FAIRFIELD — To the sound of the shofar, Fairfield ushered in the Jewish New Year at Riverside Park Thursday. Chabad of Fairfield celebrated Rosh Hashana with a Tashlich service at the park after the ...
(JTA) For the first time since Ukraine was plunged into war in 2022, soldiers on the front lines could hear the blast of the shofar marking the Jewish new year. The largest Jewish communal body in the ...
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