Word: shofar
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...structure that was rebuilt in the 1950s after being destroyed by the Nazis. With his hands humbly clasped in front of him, the Pope walked into the main hall as the choir sang, ''Shalom alechem,'' or ''peace be with you." After two Hebrew hymns, and the blowing of the shofar ram's horn, the son of a Holocaust survivor and then the synagogue's rabbi spoke. When it came time for Benedict to rise, his remarks wouldn't stray much from the original text. But there was something happening that went beyond words. It was in the way the Pope...
...ringing of the church bells will be followed by blasts on a shofar and the call of a muezzin...
Esensten, who is also a Crimson editor, fainted while blowing the shofar at the end of yesterday’s services, having fasted during...
Participants sang Hebrew hymns and listened as the rabbi blew a shofar, a ram's horn used since the days of ancient Israel as a call to the services. The rabbi, wearing long white robes, led the participants in a short, solemn service concentrating on hopes for the new year...
...kind of numerological Hebraic rhapsody. In the first movement, "Free-Style Events," the orchestral players improvise lustily on a seven-note scale while shouting out seven times sheva, the Hebrew word for the mystical number seven, then proclaiming "Hamishim!," which means 50. Brass instruments evoke the blowing of the shofar, the ram's horn used in sacred services; strings scuttle along skittishly; even a synthesizer chimes...