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• R. Meir is considered to be the tanna of the mishnah which allows children to blow the shofar (a positive, time-bound mitzvah) but which is understood to prohibit women from blowing the shofar. Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female.
• And, I went to see him because I wanted to talk about the shofar, which is related to Isaac because the shofar, the ram's horn that Jews blow every year on the Jewish New Year is said to come among many reasons from the ram that saved Isaac from the binding at his father's hand. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
• Although DEP doesn't conduct toxic monitoring of its waterways -- that's the state's job -- "if there was a chlordane problem, we think we would be able to detect that," Shofar said, because chlordane affects the reproductive ability of fish. Retired Greenbelt professor on pollution hunt
• That is what Maimonides meant when he called the shofar "God's alarm call," asking us not to slumber through life, but to use it to bring blessings. Aish.com
• It's believed that when the shofar is sounded, Satan will be completely disoriented. Perry Garfinkel: A Hind-Jew in India
• He opposed circumcision, wearing of skull caps or prayer shawls, or the blowing of the shofar - in short just about anything traditionally Jewish.
• Also gone were all the writings in Hebrew (except medical texts) and all objects utilized in Jewish rituals, such as menorahs, mezuzahs, mizrahs, shofars, ceremonial knives used for circumcision, Torah covers and talliths.
• Jerry Lampen/Reuters STRIKES CONTINUE: An Israeli man blew a shofar, which is a ram's horn, near Kibbutz Nir Am as plumes of smoke rose above the northern Gaza Strip Sunday. Today's Photos: Jan. 12
• We study with our eyes, mouth, and brain, eat matzah with our mouths, listen to the shofar with our ears, and wear the tefillin on the arm and head.
• Marked by the blowing of a ram horn known as the shofar in Hebrew, the holiday begins a 10-day period of repentance and reflection that ends with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement that is considered the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. PhillyClout