It gives me chills when I hear the Shofar blow,
so I had to have one! I am doing pretty good on
it now, but still need more wind!!!


Numbers 10:9
And when you go to war in your land against the adversary who
oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets,
that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall
be saved from your enemies.


The simplest of these calls is a single tone, referred to as the tekiah or
possibly in traditional terminology, the tekiah gedolah (i.e., great tekiah)
because of being held for a longer period of time. In the scriptures however,
the tekiah or tekiah gedolah is simply referred to as a long, sustained blast.
This simple call was the signal to Moses and the people of Israel to come to
the base of the Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19:13) and the call sounded by the priests
at the famous battle of Jericho (Joshua 6:5).