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  • From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the Feast of Trumpets
  • Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 18:43:37 -0500

Actually, Yigal, the two places where this mitzva is mentioned, are like hundreds of other mitzvot mentioned in the Torah, where the exact details of how to observe them, were not given in the written Torah, but in the Oral Torah, and then taught down, from generation to generation, by our leaders, in an unbroken chain of Mesorah. Ezra was just one of the transmitters of Torah. It's absurd to believe, that the 3 times that the positive commandment of terua are mentioned in the Torah, are meant for each individual to decide for himself what it means, like clapping hands - something that important to be mentioned three times, for sure was not meant for chance observance - despite what even some Jews would like to believe.

Shoshanna


Actually, Shoshanna, a "teru'ah" is literally a shout, "leharia'", to shout
or exclaim. The two places in which the day is mentioned, Lev. 23:23-25 and
Num. 29:1-6 do not mention either the shofar or any other type of trumpet.
Just when this was understood by Jews as referring to the blowing of the
shofar is not clear - it's not mentioned in the Tanakh anywhere. In fact,
the day itself is not mentioned until Ezra, who used it to gather the people
and teach them Torah - no shofar there either. The fact that one of the
sounds made by the shofar is called a "teru'ah" is a back-interpretation.

By the way, the Samaritans to this day mark the day by clapping their hands,
which is how they have come to interpret "teru'ah". I'm not saying that this
is a more correct interpretation, just that there are more than one possible
interpretation.

Yigal Levin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] b-hebrew Digest, Vol 45,Issue 32 the Feast of
Trumpets


Not trumpets - shofar - ram's horn.

It is not called the feast of trumpets, it is called Yom Teruah -
Teruah being the name of one of the sounds that the sofar makes.

Shoshanna



Everyone

Todday is Feast of Trumpets, Happy Feast of Trumpets
Any one have any insight on this day?
Eva Ritsema


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