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Here for your consideration is a pleasing picture of a Yemenite Jew Blowing the Shofar, or Sabbath Horn. It was created in between 1934 and 1939 by Matson Photo Service, photographer.
The photograph presents a stunning image of this sacred Jewish tradition.
The Shofar is mentioned in the Bible in Leviticus 25: "Then you shall transmit a blast on the horn; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, the day of Yom Kippur, you shall have the horn sounded throughout the land, And proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." The Shofar was made from a Ram's Horn, and was used to announce important events to the Jewish People. The horn is blown 100 times, and serves as a reminder to the Jewish People that Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son.
To the Christian, the Shofar is imporatant in that we are taught that its sounding will announce the Rapture, and Christ's return for his church; "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
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