According to the Mishnah a Jew must hear on Rosh Hashanah nine Shofar blows. The order of the blows is: Tekiah, Teruah, Tekiah, repeated three times (see \u201cSounds of the Shofar\u201d)<\/p>\n
On the fourth century three sounds were added \u2013 Shevarim (which sound like groaning).<\/p>\n
Maimonides said:<\/strong> That Teruah mentioned in the Torah, we have doubts about it, as years passed by and exile lingered, and we do not know how it was: is it the howl of wailing women, or the moan of a person, once and again, when his heart is concerned about something important, or is it both. Therefore we do all of them: the howling which we call Teruah, and the moans one after the other which we call three Shevarim.<\/p>\n According the Mishnah the number of Shofar blows one must hear on Rosh Hashanah is thirty, and nowadays, this is the order of Shofar blows:<\/p>\n Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, Tekiah (TSTT) \u2013 three times<\/p>\n Tekiah, Shevarim, Tekiah (TST) \u2013 three times<\/p>\n Tekiah, Teruah, Tekiah (TRT) \u2013 three times<\/p>\n Over the years most communities added thirty more sounds in the middle of the prayer \u2013 for Kingdoms, for Remembrance and for Shofars \u2013 all in all: ninety; then we add ten sounds to reach one hundred.<\/p>\n Rabbi Yitzhak said: <\/strong>Why do we blow the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah?<\/p>\n \u201cWhy do we Blow the Shofar\u201d? The Almighty said blow the Shofar! (Rosh Hashanah Tractate)<\/p>\n According to Maimonides,<\/strong> even though blowing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah is mandatory according to the Torah, there is a hint in it:<\/p>\n \u201cWake up you who are in sound sleep, and slumberous people stop hibernating, look into your deeds, repent and remember your creator. Those who forget the truth in the vanity of time and wander in their sleep through nonsense and emptiness which shall do no good nor save anybody, look into your souls and mend your ways and deeds, and each one of you shall forsake his mean ways and mean thoughts (Hilchot Teshuvah).<\/p>\n Maimonides <\/strong>gives a number of reasons for the commandment of blowing the Shofar, among them:<\/p>\n Rabbi Saadia Gaon (10th century) mentions ten global topics involved in blowing the Shofar:<\/p>\n Rabbi Saadia Gaon<\/strong> mentioned all the cosmic events, from the Creation to the resurrection of the dead.<\/p>\n The Kabala literature has tremendous influence on the uses of the Shofar and on the beliefs attributed to it. * All the central themes, mentioned in the book of Zohar and in the Kabala literature, are linked to theories on the creation of the world and on the relations between divine forces and the global ones.<\/p>\n One of the themes repeated in various forms is the atonement through the Shofar blasts.<\/p>\n Blast of the Shofar is capable of changing the judgment in heavens from guilty to acquittal, to disrupt the prosecutors and even silence them on Judgment Day (Rosh Hashanah). When the Lord is at the throne of judgment and the prosecutors \u2013 the moans and howls \u2013 rest their accusations, the People of Israel change God's intention from guilty to acquittal with prayers and blasts of the Shofar. **<\/p>\n The idea of Zichron Teruah<\/strong> (Shofar blast\u2019s remembrance) appearing in the prayers, means the memory of past events<\/strong>. The People of Israel blowing the Shofars on Rosh Hashanah, remember the Shofar blast which saved them during the conquest of the land of Israel. The sound of Teruah, going up and down like a chain, symbolizes the binding of the forces of evil and the release from bondage. The People of Israel, as slaves, shall be finally released from their bonds by the blast of the Shofar of the last redemption.<\/p>\n Past and future are connected in the Shofar of Redemption<\/strong>. This motif is repeated many times in the Kabalistic literature. The Shofar of Redemption of the end of days symbolizes the Shofar which took the People of Israel out of Egypt. The Shofar of the revelation of Sinai is the Great Shofar, to be blown in the end of days, as said in the book of Isaiah (27, 13).<\/p>\n The list of reasons for blowing the Shofar is not through yet\u2026<\/p>\n Scholars and Rabbis, commentators and philosophers continue to explain its meaning \u2013 to this day.<\/p>\n About the manner of blowing the Shofar According to the Mishnah a Jew must hear on Rosh Hashanah nine Shofar blows. The order of the blows is: Tekiah, Teruah, Tekiah, repeated three times (see \u201cSounds of the Shofar\u201d) On the fourth century three sounds were added \u2013 Shevarim (which sound like groaning). Maimonides said: That […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"leftmenu_temp.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72\/revisions\/849"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shofarot-israel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why do we blow the Shofar?<\/h2>\n
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The Shofar according to Kabala<\/h2>\n
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