According to one of the Kabbalists, the shofar was the Jews first form of Tank because it caused the fall of the walls of Jericho. From Wordnik.com. [IDF Military Tank Excorsize | Jewschool] Reference
In fact, women are encouraged to perform rituals originally reserved for men, such as shofar and lulav. From Wordnik.com. [Feinstein, Rabbi Moses.] Reference
The shofar is a symbol of Rosh Hashanah. From Wordnik.com. [Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan begin today] Reference
The shofar is a ram's horn. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference
"threshing floor", blow the "shofar" to release the breakthrough in your life … oh yeah - and take up an offering. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
In New York rabbis were blowing the shofar 350 times. From Wordnik.com. [Bill McKibben: Reason And Faith In Copenhagen] Reference
One long, concluding blast on the shofar, and then ... food. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Pomerantz: The Sound of Silence] Reference
This month, perhaps Congress needs a daily shofar blast as well. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Steve Gutow: Shofar to Congress: Wake Up! Work Still Needs to be Done] Reference
On Rosh Hashanah it is a custom to blow the shofar, the ram's horn. From Wordnik.com. [Gahl Eden Sasson: Rosh Hashanah: Why It's Your Real Birthday] Reference
Others, such as hearing the shofar, related to a community setting. From Wordnik.com. [Observance of Mitzvot: Custom and Halakhah.] Reference
Once that shofar blew on Rosh Hoshana, I've had you in my cross hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Abramson: I Will Dominate You, Yom Kippur] Reference
Too bad a shofar I don't have, so I'm bringing a bottle of rum instead. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
Once that shofar blew on Rosh Hoshana, I\'ve had you in my cross hairs. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Abramson: I Will Dominate You, Yom Kippur] Reference
Don't come and use subterfuge -- Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and a shofar. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Should Christians Stop Trying to Convert Jews? - January 12, 2000] Reference
"The shofar has sounded!" exclaimed a man who had not been on stage before. From Wordnik.com. [Instrument] Reference
But whenever it sounded, it was reminiscent of nothing so much as a shofar. From Wordnik.com. [The Polo Crashers] Reference
If that doesn't do the trick, then I got to blow the shofar, the ram's horn. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
It also tells us to sound the shofar at a time of happiness and celebration. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001] Reference
If the shofar Blower didn't blow the shofar, Yom Kippur was officially over. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Pomerantz: The Sound of Silence] Reference
We enter the New Year with the sounds of the shofar reverberating through us. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference
And we talked about the shofar and he made a shofar when he was young, actually. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths] Reference
There is another tradition that links the sound of the shofar to a different mother. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference
He will step out onto the field to the call of the shofar, traditionally a ram's horn. From Wordnik.com. [The Showdown After Sundown] Reference
The tears of both Sarah and the unnamed mother of Sisera are in the sound of the shofar. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference
The mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah is "L'shmoah kol shofar," to listen to the sound of the shofar. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Laura Geller: Numbers 29:1: Listening to the Sound of the Shofar] Reference
The shofar has been blown in synagogues around the world this week -- surely not in Yankee Stadium ever. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001] Reference
The Washington Cathedral has an ophicleide stop; the Central Synagogue in New York has one labeled "shofar.". From Wordnik.com. [In Washington for convention, organists pull out all the stops] Reference
As the sound of the shofar welcomes the new year, let us hope that we can combat these forces of intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The Vice President On Rosh Hashana] Reference
March 17, 2008 at 4:17 pm shofar, the onlee DNA that seemz to be replicating is teh rhino virus you gibbed me. From Wordnik.com. [Driving a Jaguar - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Elaine will be leaving for Israel on Sunday and one of the things she's planning on buying while there is a shofar. From Wordnik.com. [-] Reference
The free event will include High Holiday-themed activities, a shofar factory, homemade apple cider and face painting. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County religion notes] Reference
My "oooh" was the sound of the shofar ram's horn calling a loud primal tikeya, the extended ancient whole note from my very core. From Wordnik.com. [I asked Helen Thomas about Israel. Her answer revealed more than you think.] Reference
Much like Sharon thirty-three years later, Goren strode onto the Haram accompanied by singing acolytes and blowing a ritual shofar. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadlocked City] Reference
It was decided that they both should go to the synagogue at the same time and whichever one of them was first to blow the shofar would win. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
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