This is a rabbi from Chabad blowing a shofar at a program that I attended this afternoon. If you are not Jewish, you may be asking, "What is a shofar?" It is a horn from a ram, like the ram in this photo:
The rabbi gave a talk to explain what it was all about, using A-B-C to help us remember. Alarm or wake-up call, Binding of Isaac, and Coronation of a king. First, we have to wake up and know we need something. Isaac was bound by his father Abraham to be the sacrifice he offered, but then a ram got caught in a bush nearby and became the sarifice instead. (Find that story in Genesis 22). I can see how a ram's curved horn could be caught when he pokes his head in the green stuff to eat it, can't you? That's how the ram's horn comes into the story. Today, we heard the sound of the ram's horn in the rabbi's hands.
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