Blow the Shofar
This is a forty-day season which, Jews embark upon the serious task of examining their lives and repenting or turn toward God. They make any wrongs they have committed during the previous year right. They make amends with anyone they have wronged and to make plans for improving during the coming year. The month of Elul is the first thirty days and is a time of preparation. The last ten days are the ten High Holy Days (known as the Days of Awe). This is the season for the two holiest days of the Jewish year the first day being on the Feast of Trumpets through the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) . These seasons are all about making peace and striving to be a better person. The Shofar symbolizes the theme of the Days of Repentance. During this time we try to make a new start within ourselves.
The Shofar is bent and it represents that you should bend and respect God. It is powerful and removes obstacles before us and helps us reach this new start. Should this be only a Jewish event? Shouldn't Christians get right too? To be forgiven, we must have a repentant heart and ask for forgiveness. It is believed that the Second Coming will be during this season. If so, don't you want to be right?
Read Numbers 29:1, Job 38:7, Lev. 23:24; 25:9, 1 Chron.15:24, 2 Chron. 29:27, Ps 81:3; 98:6
Directions: Recite the Shofar Blessing below and then click on the black arrow button on the YouTube video that is pointing to the right. The shofar is never blown on a Sabbath Day.
Shofar Blessing
Recite this Blessing before blowing or listening to the shofar:
"Blessed art thou, Lord our God, Master of the universe, who sanctifies us with his commandments and commands us to hear the sound of the shofar."
Click on the Black Arrow Button to Listen to the Shofar!
The shofar can't be blow after sundown on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 on Yom Teruah (Feast of Trumpets) until October 8, 2011 at sunset.