Rosh Hashanah, Yom Teruah — The Day of Sounding the Shofar

A focused study of the one appointed time most people know least. Yom Teruah is the day of the blast — not a new year party, not an afterthought before Yom Kippur, but a commanded day whose central act is a sound.

This works through what Scripture actually says about the day, why the shofar and not a trumpet, what the teruah is meant to signify, and how the day sits inside the fall cycle that runs through Yom Kippur to Sukkot.

If your household is keeping Yom Teruah for the first time this year, read this before September 11.

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A shofar you can actually blow. See our guide to choosing a shofar — the difference between a horn that is kosher for blowing and one that is plated for display matters on this day more than any other.