{"id":48605,"date":"2019-01-31T17:30:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T15:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=48605"},"modified":"2022-08-28T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T07:29:23","slug":"what-does-judaism-sound-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/what-does-judaism-sound-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Judaism Sound Like?"},"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":[578,650],"acf":{"old_id":"48605","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":37333,"related_cahpter":"146","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Hearing contemporary echoes from the distant past","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What does Judaism sound like? The cantor\u2019s melancholy voice as she sings Kol Nidre? The upbeat tune of Mi Chamocha? The excited chatter at a bar mitzvah oneg? The silence at brunch as everyone tucks into their bagels and lox?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These sounds may be familiar to many Jewish communities today. But what about the sounds of the past? What did it sound like, when the Israelites crossed the Sea of Reeds? What was the noise, as the burning bush crackled and spoke to Moses? Was Sarah\u2019s laugh more of a giggle than a chortle? What was the tone of Rebecca\u2019s voice as she convinced Jacob to impersonate his twin brother Esau? How did the boisterous antics of Jacob\u2019s sons reverberate as they played and fought with each other?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Torah does not come with sound effects. We have no way of knowing many of these sounds. Yet there are some sounds in the Torah that we still hear today. The Torah tells us that the first day of the seventh month shall be a sacred occasion, a day of no work. It is also a day \u2018when the horn is sounded\u2019 (Numbers 29:1). A sacred day that we still observe today \u2013 Rosh HaShanah, the beginning of our year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shofar blast is an evocative, sparse, beautiful sound. The shofar\u2019s haunting, poignant, primal cry cuts through the modern noises of cell phones buzzing, traffic passing and televisions blaring. This simple sound fills a room, stopping us in our tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before the ritual sounding of the shofar, we say: \u201cBlessed are you, Adonai our God, Sovereign of the universe, who hallows us with mitzvot, commanding us to hear the sound of the Shofar.\u201d We are not commanded to blow the shofar, but to hear it. In the shofar, we hear a cry from the past. A cry for the future, for the new year to come. In the shofar blast, we hear a sound from the Torah. We hear the same sound our ancestors heard. We may not know what Sarah\u2019s laugh sounded like, or Rebecca\u2019s voice, but in the shofar blast, we hear our Torah.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image: Hillel Smith, courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":91926,"id":91926,"title":"ps150-hillel smith - shofar_original","filename":"ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/psalmblast\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":91925,"date":"2021-04-11 08:16:00","modified":"2022-09-23 13:53:47","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":622,"height":625,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","medium_large-width":622,"medium_large-height":625,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","large-width":622,"large-height":625,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","1536x1536-width":622,"1536x1536-height":625,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","2048x2048-width":622,"2048x2048-height":625,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original.jpg","post_full_size-width":622,"post_full_size-height":625,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/ps150-hillel-smith-shofar_original-418x420.jpg","home_baner-width":418,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"What Does Judaism Sound Like?","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"Hearing contemporary echoes from the distant past","preview_embedded":"","preview_image":{"ID":91926,"id":91926,"title":"ps150-hillel smith - 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