YOM KIPPUR: THE GREAT SHOFAR

At the conclusion of the “Neilah” service for Yom Kippur. A shofar is blown. This shofar is known as the “great shofar”. This shofar is an allusion to the ‘Great Shofar’ that will be blown to gather the exiles of Israel and announce the coming of the Messiah (ArtScroll Menorah Series, Yom Kippur, page 765).

In Isaiah / Yeshayahu 27:13 it is written:

Isaiah 27:13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria and the outcasts in the land of Egypt and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem.