What is the day of trumpets of jewish day?

Question

plz tell mee, i am learning this at the bible class and i need to know what is this daya bout and when is and and etc etc all the infos pls tellme!

Answer 1

Shofar (sho-FAHR)

    A ram's horn, blown like a trumpet as a call to repentance.

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Answer 2

It is actually called the "Feast of Trumpets" and it comes in a line of successive feasts in the ancient Hebrew calendar.

A good list of all the ancient Hebrew feasts if found in Leviticus 23. The first feast mentioned is the the weekly 7th-day Sabbath honoring creation. Then come the yearly feasts in this order: Passover/Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Feast of Weeks, Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Feast of Tabernacles.

To understand the "Feast of Trumpets" one must understand its relationship to the other feasts.

The passover was to commemorate the deliverance of God's people from their enemies. First Fruits was to consecrate to God all that came  first from the field during harvest, this demonstrated God's ownership of all things and that he is first in all things. The Feast of Weeks was celebrated 50 days after first fruits and is also known by the title of "Pentecost" (signifying 5). This was a feast of the great harvest. 50 days after devoting the first fruits of the field to Lord the God's people would harvest their goods and celebrate the mercy and bountifulness of God's provision. About 7 months after Passover and approximately 6 1/2 months after Pentecost (of Feast of Weeks) came the "Feast of Trumpets."

This feast was to prepare the people for the Day of Atonement. Both feasts were Held in the same month (October). It was to be a time of solemn preparation. The Feast of Trumpets was like a call to repentance. Gods people were to begin making necessary preparations for the day of Atonement. So serious was the day of Atonement that "Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people. I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day." (Lev. 23:29,30 NIV). God was quiet serious about the day of Atonement. So serious that he had a feast of warning (the Feast of Trumpets) just prior to the Day of Atonement  as a warning of God's judgment to come.

According to the Bible the Feast of Trumpets was observed by the cessation of labor and organized trumpet blasts. Trumpet Blast are always significant because they  precede scenes of Judgment. For example for 6 days the Israelites walked around Jericho blowing trumpets, symbolizing the judgment to fall upon the city of Jericho (Joshua 6:1-20). When Jesus returns, According to the Apostle Paul, he will be announced by a loud trumpet: "For the Lord, himself will descend from  heaven with a shout, with the archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first " (1 Thess. 4:16 HCSB). And finally terrible woes are inflicted upon apostate Christians in the Book of Revelation in each of the "7 Trumpets" (Rev. 8:6-9:20 and 11:15-19).

After the Feast of Trumpets is the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.

As mentioned before, the Day of Atonement was considered a day of reckoning. Believers were to deny themselves, pray, and remove sin from their lives. It was during this day that the High Priest actually went into the most holy place in the tabernacle of God and sprinkled blood upon the Ark of the Covenant where the Ten Commandments were kept. After that he would purify all the vessels in the sanctuary and symbolically lay all the sins of the Hebrew people--those who had prepared themselves for that day--upon the Azazel goat, which was released to wander in the wilderness alone laden with sins of the people (See Leviticus 16).

After this day of reckoning, the happy Feast Tabernacles was observed. At this time believers would repair themselves to dwell in tents outside their homes enjoying the fruit of the land. This day was remind them of how the lived in wilderness traveling to the promise land. The feast was also to remind them that heavenly promise land is still to come (See Leviticus 23).

The Christian fulfillment of these feasts begins with life of Jesus.

Passover: Jesus becomes the Passover lamb. Jesus was nailed to the cross on Friday before the High Sabbath (because it was on passover) began. He represented the way of deliverance for his people from their sins.

First Fruits: Again Jesus fulfills first fruits as he is resurrected from the dead bringing with him the first fruits of those who slept in the grave. Demonstrating that sin had no power over those who were in the grave. "And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They cam out of the tombs, and after Jesus resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people." (Mt. 27:50-53 NIV)

Feast of Weeks or Pentecost: This was fulfilled by the great harvest of souls by the Apostles during that very day mentioned in Acts 2.

Feast of Trumpets: Unfortunately, the Feast of Trumpets has no fulfillment in Bible times. So

Answer 3

Rosh Hashanah,the beginning of the new year,it is celebrated with trumpets.

Answer 4

Rosh Hashannah is NOT celebrated with 'trumpets'. No Jewish festival is.

Do you mean the Shofar? This is a ram's horn and it is blown in special sequences of notes; it is a truly magical and very evocative sound. For more details:

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A shofar is an instrument made from the horn of a ram or other kosher animal. It was used in ancient Israel to announce the New Moon (Rosh Chodesh) and call people together. It was also blown on Rosh Hashanah, marking the beginning of the New Year, signifying both need to wake up to the call to repentance, and in connection with the portion read on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, the Binding of Isaac (Genesis, chapter 22) in which Abraham sacrifices a ram in place of his son, Isaac.

Today, the shofar is featured most prominently in the Rosh Hashanah morning services. It is considered a commandment to hear the shofar blown.

There is a great deal of symbolism tied in with the legal requirements for what constitutes a proper shofar. The shofar of Rosh Hashanah, whose purpose it is to rouse the Divine in the listener, may not be constructed of an artificial instrument. It must be an instrument in its natural form and naturally hollow, through whom sound is produced by human breath, which God breathes into human beings. This pure, and natural sound, symbolizes the lives it calls Jews to lead. What is more, the most desirable shofar is the bent horn of a ram. The ram reminds one of Abraham's willing sacrifice of that which was most precious to him. The curve in the horn mirrors the contrition of the one who repents.

In the Talmud, we read: Rabbi Abbahu said:

Why do we sound the shofar? Because the Holy One, blessed be God, said: Blow me a ram's horn that I may remember to your credit the binding of Isaac, the son of Abraham, and I shall account it to you as a binding of yourselves before Me. The Torah tells us: Abraham look up and behold, he saw a ram caught in the thicket by its horns [Genesis 22:13]. This teaches us that the Holy One, blessed be God, showed our ancestor Abraham the ram tearing himself free from one thicket and becoming entangled in another. Said the Holy One, blessed be God, to Abraham: Thus are your children destined to be caught in iniquities and entangled in misfortunes, but in the end they will be redeemed by the horns of a ram. Therefore the prophet Zechariah said of the time of redemption: And the Lord shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth like the lightning; and the Lord God shall blow the shofar, and shall move in stormy winds of the south [Zechariah 9:14]. [Rosh Hashanah 16a]

According to Leo Rosten, “The bend in the shofar is supposed to represent how a human heart, in true repentance, bends before the Lord. The ram's horn serves to remind the pious how Abraham, offering his son Isaac in sacrifice, was reprieved when God decided that Abraham could sacrifice a ram instead. The man who blows the shofar is required to be of blameless character and conspicuous devotion; he must blow blasts of different timbre, some deep, some high, some quavering.”

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Sources: Rabbi Scheinerman's homepage; Rosten, Leo. The Joys of Yiddish. NY: Pocket Books, 1991.

  

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TO THE ASKER*****************

Please be aware that SOLOMON K has given you an entirely INCORRECT answer.

He is giving you the Christian interpretation of a JEWISH festival. But here's the thing: there IS no Christian 'version' of Judaism. Solomon starts talking about Jesus: Jesus does not feature in Judaism at all. Not at all. Jesus is irrelevant TO Judaism and always has been.

And no,  Jesus is NOT the 'passover lamb'. It would be nice if Solomon would kindly STOP trying to REwrite and hijack JEWISH festivals. Jesus has never had anything to do with Pesach and he never will have.

You have asked about a Jewish festival. I assume you want an accurate answer and this you have been given by several Jews; we are the ones who take part in Jewish festivals and we know what they are and are not called.

There is nothing to do with 'trumpets' in ANY Jewish festival.

There is nothing to do with Jesus in ANY Jewish festival, text, prayer.

Answer 5

Rosh Hashanah (Rosh - head, Hashanah - of the year; so literal the head of the year or the New Year) is celebrated with, among other things, the sounding of the shofar (as Frau correctly notes - pronounced "Sho-FAHR").  

This is a ram's horn and can be small enough to be held in one hand (as mine is) or several feet long and curved (or have many curves) and is big enough to be held in both hands.

There is no mouthpiece, just an opening, and takes some practice to learn how to get sound out of it.

Rosh Hashanah is usually around September or October; we use a lunar year so the date differs each calendar year.

B'shalom

Answer 6

Lol , it's a shofar - a ram's horn , not a trumpet!

On Rosh Ha Shana - the Jewish New Year.