{"id":47043,"date":"2019-01-07T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=47043"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T13:11:59","slug":"silver-trumpets-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/silver-trumpets-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Trumpets \u2013 Then And Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[363,680],"acf":{"old_id":"47043","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":33877,"related_cahpter":"127","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Symbols of leadership, valor and freedom","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The beginning of our chapter describes the making and use of the silver trumpets that were part of the sacred implements of the Desert Mishkan: \u201cThe Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Make for you two silver trumpets; make them of hammered work. They shall serve you to summon the community and to set the divisions in motion\u2026\u201d. The biblical text goes on to detail how the trumpets were used to signal to the Israelite people and to lead them into battle (Numbers 10:1-10). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Midrash (Tanhuma Buber, Be-ha\u2019alotkhah 17-18) learns from the military use of the trumpets that Moses was a king who goes out to war with trumpets blaring. The Midrash goes on to derive from God\u2019s telling Moses \u201cmake for you (<em>\u2018aseh lekha<\/em>) two silver trumpets\u201d, that they were specifically made for Moses. For even though they were to be sounded in battle, when Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho it was by sounding Shofarot, according to the biblical narrative (Joshua, Chapter 6). However, a midrashic tradition relates that when Joshua and his Israelite troops needed assistance, it was Phinehas, son of Eleazar son of Aaron the priest (see Numbers, Chapter 25) and his troops who came to the rescue sounding their sacred trumpets to finally bring down Jericho\u2019s walls (Legends of the Jews IV, pp. 14-15). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another post-biblical tradition records that at the feast held to celebrate the victory over Sisera, the people of Shiloh \u201csounded the broad trumpets\u201d and Deborah proclaimed, \u201cthis shall be a testimony of the trumpets between the stars and the Lord\u201d (Legends VI, p. 199, n. 92). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jewish legend (Tanhuma Buber, Be-halotekhah 18-19) records that the trumpets were \u201chidden\u201d (<em>nignezu<\/em>) not once but twice &#8212; first in the days of Moses and then in the days of the First Temple. This may relate to the tragic narrative of how the priests and Levites threw themselves into the flames of the burning Temple with their harps and trumpets (Legends IV, p. 304). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The enduring importance of the silver trumpets, as a symbol of Jewish independence, is evident from silver coins minted during the Bar-Kokhba revolt against the Romans (132-135 CE) showing two \u00a0trumpets with the inscription \u201cTo the Freedom of Jerusalem\u201d (see illustration). A more well-known depiction of the trumpets is found on the frieze of the Arch of Titus, as part of the booty looted from the Second Temple and brought to Rome. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whatever may have become of the silver trumpets, it may be hoped that we or our descendants may yet again hear them sounded. 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