September 04, 1970 • Page Image 46
…THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 46—Friday, September 4, 1970 Israel's Shofar Blasts Friday Afternoons By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX (Copyright 1970, JTA, Inc ) - It is customary in some places in Israel to sound the shofar on Friday afternoon. In the days of the talmudic era the shofar was blown six times late Friday afternoon to announce publicly that the Sabbath was about to arrive. (Yerushalmi, Shah- bos, Chapter 15). They actually blew the shofar si...…

















































