Subject: Re: Sound the Shofar!!! Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 23:43:35 +0000 To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>
> > To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com > From: Lars-Toralf Storstrand > Subject: Sound the Shofar!!! > > Hey, I just bought myself a Shofar, when visiting Israel the last > time, and I'm starting to get the hang of how to blow the thing. > Yet, I have a few questions. > > 1. I've heard that there are five distinct signals to blow with the > Shofar. Myself I know only two: The T'qiah and the T'ruach. If > anyone can tell me the others, and please: Give a distinct > description of how they sound, or how to blow these distinct sounds. > This is something I want to learn. > > 2. Someone once said to me: The Shofar is easier to sound if the > Ruach HaKodesh is close. Anyone? > > Greetings in Y'shua > El'Azar (Lars-Toralf Storstrand) > > Lars-Toralf > From: R.T. Channell To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Re: Sound the Shofar!!! Here is a bit of information that I know about Blowing a Shofar. Before blowing recite the following blessing: Baruch ata Adonai, Elohaynu Melech ha'olam asher kidshanu bemitzvotav vetzivanu lishmo'ah kol shofar. Blessed are You O Lord, Our God and King of the Universe, who has made us holy with mitzvot and has instructed us to hear the call of the shofar. The notes of the Shofar are as follows: 1. Tekiah: lit. "blast" one long blast with a clean consistent tone. 2. Shevarim: lit. "broken sound" three short calls together as long as tekiah. 3. Teruah: lit. "alarm" a rapid series of very short notes generally three series of three that together total one tekiah. 4. Tekiah gedolah: lit "the great tekiah" a single blast that is held as long as you can do it. I hope that is bit of information has been helpful to you. Shalom and Shavuah Tov Yochanan ***************************************************************** From: Sara Sutherland To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Re: Sound the Shofar!!! These sites might help they had some audio of Shofar sounds. http://www.utexas.edu/students/cjso/Holidays/ShofarFac.html http://www.jfed.org/magnes/shofar.htm http://www.ncinter.net/~ejt/shofar.htm Shalom, Sara ********************************************************************* From: David Weiner To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com Subject: Re: Sound the Shofar!!! Shalom, The Shofar...................The Ram's Horn. An instrument well used by Jews as far back as when they were slaves in Egypt. It is said, The Shofar was blown at times when Jews needed to hear it's sound, just to keep going as slaves of Pharoah. Who blew the Shofar at that time?, someone who probably was well hidden. It is true, the Roch Hakodesh will send the sound as far as necessary for the ears of Jews to hear. It is also said that along with the shouting, it was the Shofar's sound that brought down the walls of Jerico. Down thru the ages, long before the birth of Yeshua, the sound of the Shofar was the Jewish symbol of faith, deliverence and a reminder of who you were and why you are Hashem's children. The Shofar is blown on all Jewish festivals, victories, and especially on Yom Kippur. Learn to blow your Shofar well, it is a sound that Satan hates, but God loves to hear it. Boruch Hashem, David Ben Reuben ******************************************************************** From: Rick/Sheila Ruffin To: <heb_roots_chr@geocities.com> Subject: Re: Sound the Shofar!!! Shalom in the Mighty Name of Yeshua! My wife and I have a shofar and have found several sources of info that have been very helpful. One is: http://www.virtual.co.il/city_services/holidays/rosh/shofar.htm . We found this by searching the net for shofar. Another wonderful source for us on many issues in the past has been Dick Reuben Evangelistic Association, P.O. Box 777, Boonville, In. 47601. He is a messianic (completed) Jew that has awesome revelation concerning Scripture. The teaching on shofars is a video entitled "Shofar", item # V-SHO, and is $15.00 plus $3.00 s&h. I guarantee you this will be some of the best money ever spent on teaching material. May Hashem greatly bless you in your search for the Truth about the One we serve and worship, and His holy things. The Ruach HaKodesh will always lead us into Truth, and as we follow, into all Truth. There is nothig else that will set you free. Blessings, Rick and Sheila Ruffin ******************************************************************** From: sberkowitz@usa.net To: heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com Subject: Re: [Sound the Shofar!!!] Lars- If you will emaile a fax #, I will fax you a copy of a teaching on the blowing of the shofar. Personally, I know three of the particualr blasts, not five. Doesn't mean there aren't. I shall return to reading the work myself. Steven Berkowitz ******************************************************************* To: heb_roots_chr@geocities.com From: Paul Subject: Re: The Shofar and Silver Trumpets. Dear Eddie, Greetings. I am enjoying the material and the commentaries by your readers, even though I do not have time to study all in detail. Thankyou. Would you care to comment on the significance and history of the Shofar in relation to O/T practice and the possible significance in our worship today. I have visited the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. I would welcome comments on the silver trumpets both in O/T times and perhaps in the future re. the rebuilding of the temple. Your brother in Messiah from Down Under. Shalom Paul.Longfield. >From Eddie: ************** The topic of the SHOFAR is a HUGE topic in the Bible. In my book, "The Seven Festivals of the Messiah", I give the various uses of the shofar in the Bible. This can be found in Chapter 7 of my book on Rosh HaShanah. You can read the text at the following URL: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2175/chap7.html I also talk about the first trump, last trump and great trump in Chapter 6 on the topic of Shavuot / Pentecost. This can be read at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/2175/chap6.html In Number 10:1-10, it gives info about the silver trumpets as it is written: "And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee two trumpets of silver, of a whole piece shall thou make them: that thou mayest USE THEM for the JOURNEYING OF THE ASSEMBLY OF THE CAMPS and when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they blow but one trumpet, then the princes which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. When you blow the alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. But when teh congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance forever throughout your generations. And IF YOU GO TO WAR in your land against your enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets: and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be SAVED FROM YOUR ENEMIES. Also in the DAY OF YOUR GLADNESS, and in your SOLEMN DAYS, and in the BEGINNING OF YOUR MONTHS, ye shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God" This next info is taken from my book, "The Seven Festivals of the Messiah" in the Rosh HaShanah chapter. The SHOFAR was blown at the temple to begin the sabbath each week. There are two types of trumpets used in the Bible: #1) The silver trumpet #2) The SHOFAR, or ram's horn On the sabbath, there was within the temple a sign on the wall that said, "To the house of the blowing of the trumpet (shofar)". Each sabbath two men with silver trumpets and a man with a shofar made three trumpet blasts twice during the day. On Rosh HaShanah this was different. The SHOFAR is the primary trumpet. On Rosh HaShanah, a shofar delivers the first blast, a silver trumpet the second, and then the shofar the third. The silver trumpets and the gathering at the temple are specified in Numbers 10. According to Leviticus 23:24 and Numbers 29, Rosh HaShanah is the day of the blowing of the trumpets. According to the Mishnah (Rosh HaShanah 16a, 3:3), the trumpet used for this purpose is the ram's horn, not trumpets made of metal as in Numbers 10. THE USE OF THE SHOFAR IN THE BIBLE The Shofar or ram's horn has always held a prominent role in the history of God's people in the Bible: #1) The Torah was given to Israel with the sound of the shofar (Exodus 19:19) #2) Israel conquered in the battle of Jericho with the blast of the shofar (Joshua 6:20) #3) Israel will be advised of the advent of the Messiah with the sound of the shofar (Zechariah 9:14, 16) #4) The shofar will be blown at the time of the ingathering of the exiles of Israel to their place (Isaiah 27:13) #5) The shofar was blown to signal the assembly of the Israelites during war (Judges 3:27, II Samuel 20:1) #6) The watchman who stood upon Jerusalem's walls blew the shofar (Ezekiel 33:3-6) #7) The shofar was blown at the start of the Jubilee year (Lev 25:9) #8) The shofar is a reminder that God is sovereign (Psalm 47:5) #9) The ram's horn, the shofar, is a reminder of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac and God's provision of a ram as a substitute #10) The trumpet was blown to announce the beginning of the festivals (Numbers 10:10). The shofar was blown to celebrate the new moon on Rosh HaShanah (Psalm 81:1-3) #11) The blowing of the shofar is a signal for the call to repentence (Isaiah 58:1) #12) The blowing of the shofar is sounded at the resurrection of the dead (I Thess 4:16) #13) The blowing of the shofar ushers in the day of the Lord (Joel 2:1) #14) John was taken up to Heaven in the Book of Revelation by the sound of the shofar (Revelation 4:1) #15) Seven shofarim are sounded when God judges the earth during the tribulation (Revelation 8-9) #16) The shofar was used for the coronatino of kings (I Kings 1:34, 39) There are three primary shofarim in Judaism. They are called the first trump, the last trump and the great trump. These trumpets are VERY significant in the redemptive plan of God. The first trump was blown at Mount Sinai (Ex 19:19). The last trump is blown to signify the resurrection of the dead (I Thess 4:16-17) and is blown on Rosh HaShanah. The great trump is blown at Yom Kippur and will signify the second coming of the Messiah (Matthew 24:29-31). I hope that this answer your question. Eddie Chumney **********************************************************************