Mysterious
Trumpet-Like Sounds Around World Leave Many in Hope of Messiah’s Arrival
“If a Shofar shall be blown in a city, can it be that the
inhabitants will not be shaken?” (Amos 3:6)
People
in Germany, Ukraine and even Canada and the United States have reported hearing
the sounds, leaving many to speculate whether a heavenly signal is being blown
from above.
The
Bible provides various signs as to the beginning
of the Messianic era and the End of Days. However, one such sign, or
rather sound, will herald in his final arrival and signal to the nations God’s
ultimate kingship – the shofar, or ram’s horn.
Today,
a tourist who goes to the Yochanan Ben Zakai Synagogue in Jerusalem will notice
something very unusual.
High
up, on an inaccessible glass shelf, is a flask of oil and a shofar. The two
items look incongruous – too high to be viewed by the public and unreachable
for practical use. Yet, they serve an important purpose.
The
special oil and shofar are waiting for the arrival of the Messiah, where they
will play a role in greeting and anointing him, just as every Jewish king in
history has been greeted – with the sound of the shofar and doused in oil
sanctified for that purpose (1 Kings 1).
The
shofar is traditionally blown in the days leading up to the Jewish New Year of
Rosh Hashana and on the days of the holiday itself. The Hebrew month of Elul, which began on the eve of August
14, begins a month-long process of repentance leading into Rosh Hashana and Yom
Kippur.
The
shofar serves as a piercing reminder to the soul of His kingship and acts as a
wake-up call for repentance.
Jews
around the world sound the shofar every morning for 30 days of Elul and then 10
additional days during the Days of Awe.
The
origin of blowing the shofar as a form of repentance goes back to Moses
ascending Mt.Sinai for 40 days before bringing the Torah down to Israel.
The
Biblical significance of and the ancestral connection to the shofar serves as a
reminder of personal service to God.
The
piercing sound of the ram’s horn is a wakeup call to the nations to seek out
God and inwardly repent, an essential element to the ultimate arrival of
the Messiah.
The
shofar’s origin is attributed to the binding of Isaac, when Abraham’s love of
God was tested against the love of his son. At the last moment, an angel stayed
his hand, and in place, a ram was substituted instead (Genesis 22:13).
The
site of the altar is, according to Jewish tradition, the site of the Holy Temple, where the ram
appeared again as a sacrifice and its horns were used as shofarot in the Temple
service.
The
primal horn, limited to one note, played a significant role in the Temple
service, and the sounds of many shofarot blown simultaneously was heard on
every holy day.
It
is interesting to note that in the Temple, which used gold, silver, and
precious gems extensively, adorning a shofar made it unsuitable for use. The sound, as well as the Shofar itself, had to be a simple
crying out to God.
The
importance of the shofar and its connection to the Holy Temple was exemplified
during the 1967 Six Day War. Chief Rabbi of the IDF Shlomo Goren carried a Torah scroll and shofar
to the Western Wall following the liberation of Jerusalem from Jordanian rule.
The
moment, captured in an iconic photo, was the first time a shofar had been blown
and heard in the heart of Jerusalem in hundreds of years.
Blowing
the shofar in celebration of liberating Jerusalem served two purposes: a shofar always goes before the Nation of Israel in battle (Numbers 10:9) and, as Rabbi Goren explained later, unifying Jerusalem was part of the Messianic process,
therefore requiring the blowing of a shofar.
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Adam Eliyahu Berkowitz is a features writer for Breaking Israel News. He made Aliyah to Israel in 1991 and served in the IDF as a combat medic. Berkowitz studied Jewish law and received rabbinical ordination in Israel. He has worked as a freelance writer and his novel, The Hope Merchant, is available on Amazon. He lives in the Golan Heights with his wife and their four children.
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