Friday, September 7, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle THE SHOFAR sur- :ives fur One her nore wish he- lave lune I. ap- DOd By JULIUS L. WEIL One of the most significant ceremonial utensils in Jew- ish life is used only once a year, on Rosh Hashonah. The shofar Is based on the tradition from the times of our forefather Abraham, When he was about to carry out God's command to sacrifice his only son Isaac, his own flesh and blood born to him in his old age, an angel at the last moment prevented him from carrying out the Divine command, and instead Abraham offered a ram as a sacrifice in his son's stead. The shofar has played an out- standing part in Israel's history. When the Jews were about to re- ceive the Torah at Mount Sinai, this took place to the sound of the shofar. The approach of the fiftieth year, also, in which all slaves and the land and property were restored to their freedom, was heralded by the sound of the shofar. When Israel embarked upon a war, not of aggression, but of glorification of the Holy name, the clarion call of the sho- far rallied God's fighters. In our time, the only occasion for sound- ing the shofar is, however, on giveness of past sins, but also pasages describing the solemnity of the day, and the magnificence of the Almighty, and after the reading of the Torah, the congre- gation is hushed because the sol- emn moment for blowing the sho- far has arrived. And then the various kinds of shofar sounds penetrate the in- dividual's heart and soul. First the tekiah, the long drawn-out tune, even in its strength, then the shevorim, the interrupted tune comparable to the sobbing of a child, and finally the teruah, the broken, shattering sound like the fear and anxiety in a person's Rosh Hashonah. It is worthwhile to scrutinize the part the shofar plays on this ir Holy Day. 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