Yom Kippur Shofar

As the concluding neilah prayers began the crowd had grown to 10 000.

Yom kippur shofar. Shneur zalman of liadi founder of chabbad 1745 1812 once said. In talmudic times it was also blown to introduce shabbat. To hear the shofar a ram s horn during rosh hashana and at the end of yom kippur services is one of the most important high holidays traditions. What we achieve by blowing the shofar on rosh hashanah a person can achieve by eating kugel on shabbat break your yom kippur fast the traditional way.

That yom kippur thousands arrived to the recently expanded western wall plaza to pray. While the shofar is best known nowadays for its use on rosh hashana it also has a number of other ritual uses it is blown each morning during the month of elul and to mark the end of the day of fasting on yom kippur once the services have been completed in the evening. Kippur can also mean to cleanse with the yom kippur procedures in the temple cleansing the people of sin. After yom kippur we begin again with our sins and with our grudges.

At the inception of the diaspora during the short lived ban on. In addition to the use of technology another challenge is the blowing of the shofar a trumpet like instrument made from a ram s horn that is sounded on rosh hashanah and yom kippur. Beyond the shofar the traditional ram s horn trumpet blown dozens of times on rosh hashana and then to conclude yom kippur the piano and guitar will be played to help evoke the emotions that. Rabbi ari goldstein and staff at temple beth shalom in arnold have spent months planning for rosh hashana on friday and the 10 days of repentance leading to yom kippur the day of atonement.

As yom kippur ends we are spiritually cleansed and ready to once again accept god s laws and the shofar s poignant cry reminds us of our original commitment of na aseh venishma we will do. Many had arrived to participate in the concluding prayers and to hear the sounds of the once forbidden shofar at the end of the holy day. Rosh hashanah and yom kippur. The covid 19 pandemic is affecting all aspects of jewish life including how jews will hear the shofar during this high holidays season.