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Yemenite Silver Shofar
Beautiful Grafted-In / Jerusalem motif.
Size: 43-48 inches
"Grafted In" - Phrase taken from – Romans 11:13, 17, 18, NASB - "But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry… But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.”
The Apostle Paul is writing to the gentiles and saying that the ‘wild olive branch’ is grafted into the ‘cultivated olive tree’. The plain sense of the text is as follows:
Through the ministry of the Messiah Yeshua, Gentile believers (wild olives) are covenant–bound (grafted in) to Isra'el (Father Abraham’s Olive Tree). Therefore Gentile believers are fellow citizens and full-participants with the Commonwealth of Isra'el (Eph. 2) and are granted the divine privilege of following the entire Torah.
The Shofar has been used from Old Testament times and even to the present. It is an instrument usually made from a rams horn. It was blown on the Sabbath, it announced the New Moon, and was used to proclaim the crowning of a new king, It was also used to lead the people of Israel into battle.
The most significant modern use of the Shofar is during the holiday of Rosh Ha'Shana.
In modern day Israel, The Shofar is used mainly on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. It is blown in synagogues to mark the end of the fast at Yom Kippur, and blown at four particular occasions in the prayers on Rosh Hashanah.
During the blowing of the shofar on Rosh Hashana, there are three distinct sounds:
- Tekiah -- one long, straight blast
- Shevarim -- three medium, wailing sounds
- Teruah -- 9 quick blasts in short succession
References to the Shofar in The Bible:
"But the Spirit of The Lord took possession of Gideon; and he sounded the trumpet, and the Abiezrites were called out to follow him." (Judges 6:34 RSV)
"And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet [see Prophets] there anoint him king over Israel; then blow the trumpet, and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'" (1 Kings 1:34 RSV)
"God has gone up with a shout, The Lord with the sound of a trumpet." (Psalm 47:5 RSV)
"Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day. For it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob." (Psalm 81:3-4 RSV)
"Cry aloud, spare not, lift up your voice like a trumpet; declare to my people their transgression, to the house of Jacob their sins." (Isaiah 58:1 RSV)
"Then The Lord will appear over them, and His arrow go forth like lightning; the Lord God will sound the trumpet, and march forth in the whirlwinds of the south." (Zechariah 9:14 RSV)
Shofars are usually made from Rams horn or Antelopes horn
