#shofar — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #shofar, aggregated by home.social.
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"#BruceDavid’s magnum opus is a #psychedelic #lithograph depicting practically the entire #Torah. Over eight months, #David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look closely, you can see #Joshua blowing a #shofar, which hugs the #Israeliflag. Squint even more and you’ll notice Joshua’s face is the flared end of an even bigger shofar that encompasses the #TenCommandments, a shofar made up of dozens of small people, seven of whom hold flames as if making a human #menorah.
To understand every hidden image in just this one #painting would take more words than I have space for. David gave me the “short version” of the piece’s story on Zoom — it still took six minutes.
Although David has now spent decades making #Jewish #art — #prints, #mosaics, #stainedglass and #metalworks — and exhibiting it across the country, it wasn’t what he had anticipated doing with his life."
https://forward.com/culture/art/835634/bruce-david-art-louisville-synagogue-stained-glass/
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"#BruceDavid’s magnum opus is a #psychedelic #lithograph depicting practically the entire #Torah. Over eight months, #David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look closely, you can see #Joshua blowing a #shofar, which hugs the #Israeliflag. Squint even more and you’ll notice Joshua’s face is the flared end of an even bigger shofar that encompasses the #TenCommandments, a shofar made up of dozens of small people, seven of whom hold flames as if making a human #menorah.
To understand every hidden image in just this one #painting would take more words than I have space for. David gave me the “short version” of the piece’s story on Zoom — it still took six minutes.
Although David has now spent decades making #Jewish #art — #prints, #mosaics, #stainedglass and #metalworks — and exhibiting it across the country, it wasn’t what he had anticipated doing with his life."
https://forward.com/culture/art/835634/bruce-david-art-louisville-synagogue-stained-glass/
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"#BruceDavid’s magnum opus is a #psychedelic #lithograph depicting practically the entire #Torah. Over eight months, #David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look closely, you can see #Joshua blowing a #shofar, which hugs the #Israeliflag. Squint even more and you’ll notice Joshua’s face is the flared end of an even bigger shofar that encompasses the #TenCommandments, a shofar made up of dozens of small people, seven of whom hold flames as if making a human #menorah.
To understand every hidden image in just this one #painting would take more words than I have space for. David gave me the “short version” of the piece’s story on Zoom — it still took six minutes.
Although David has now spent decades making #Jewish #art — #prints, #mosaics, #stainedglass and #metalworks — and exhibiting it across the country, it wasn’t what he had anticipated doing with his life."
https://forward.com/culture/art/835634/bruce-david-art-louisville-synagogue-stained-glass/
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"#BruceDavid’s magnum opus is a #psychedelic #lithograph depicting practically the entire #Torah. Over eight months, #David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look closely, you can see #Joshua blowing a #shofar, which hugs the #Israeliflag. Squint even more and you’ll notice Joshua’s face is the flared end of an even bigger shofar that encompasses the #TenCommandments, a shofar made up of dozens of small people, seven of whom hold flames as if making a human #menorah.
To understand every hidden image in just this one #painting would take more words than I have space for. David gave me the “short version” of the piece’s story on Zoom — it still took six minutes.
Although David has now spent decades making #Jewish #art — #prints, #mosaics, #stainedglass and #metalworks — and exhibiting it across the country, it wasn’t what he had anticipated doing with his life."
https://forward.com/culture/art/835634/bruce-david-art-louisville-synagogue-stained-glass/
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"#BruceDavid’s magnum opus is a #psychedelic #lithograph depicting practically the entire #Torah. Over eight months, #David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look closely, you can see #Joshua blowing a #shofar, which hugs the #Israeliflag. Squint even more and you’ll notice Joshua’s face is the flared end of an even bigger shofar that encompasses the #TenCommandments, a shofar made up of dozens of small people, seven of whom hold flames as if making a human #menorah.
To understand every hidden image in just this one #painting would take more words than I have space for. David gave me the “short version” of the piece’s story on Zoom — it still took six minutes.
Although David has now spent decades making #Jewish #art — #prints, #mosaics, #stainedglass and #metalworks — and exhibiting it across the country, it wasn’t what he had anticipated doing with his life."
https://forward.com/culture/art/835634/bruce-david-art-louisville-synagogue-stained-glass/
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"A remarkable discovery has recently emerged from among a group of rare #books and #manuscripts consigned to my shop: an unrecorded eighteenth-century #Hebrew autograph manuscript penned by #Rabbi #YekutielGordon, one of the most fascinating and consequential members of the inner circle of Rabbi #MosheChaimLuzzatto, the #Ramchal.
Hidden from public view for centuries, this extraordinary #manuscript came to light only through careful examination of a collection entrusted to the shop for sale.
The manuscript itself is modest in size – approximately 4.5 by 6.5 inches – but immense in significance. Consisting of one hundred surviving double-sided folios, it preserves what appears to be a previously unknown work entitled #MarehKohen, together with a section of #MarehMussar, a work already known to scholars and associated with Rabbi Yekutiel Gordon.
Mareh Kohen focuses largely on the themes of #Elul, #teshuvah, the #YamimNoraim, and the profound symbolism of the #shofar."
https://jewishpress.com/a-manuscript-by-a-student-of-the-ramchals/
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"A remarkable discovery has recently emerged from among a group of rare #books and #manuscripts consigned to my shop: an unrecorded eighteenth-century #Hebrew autograph manuscript penned by #Rabbi #YekutielGordon, one of the most fascinating and consequential members of the inner circle of Rabbi #MosheChaimLuzzatto, the #Ramchal.
Hidden from public view for centuries, this extraordinary #manuscript came to light only through careful examination of a collection entrusted to the shop for sale.
The manuscript itself is modest in size – approximately 4.5 by 6.5 inches – but immense in significance. Consisting of one hundred surviving double-sided folios, it preserves what appears to be a previously unknown work entitled #MarehKohen, together with a section of #MarehMussar, a work already known to scholars and associated with Rabbi Yekutiel Gordon.
Mareh Kohen focuses largely on the themes of #Elul, #teshuvah, the #YamimNoraim, and the profound symbolism of the #shofar."
https://jewishpress.com/a-manuscript-by-a-student-of-the-ramchals/
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I'm sharing my annual Humanistic blowing of the shofar video for anyone who hasn't had the chance to hear #shofar during his month of Elul (the Jewish month of preparation for the High Holidays)
Im dedicating this to all who are about the work of Tikun Olam (world repair), but especially to my dear friends at The Spinoza Havurah and all of my friends from Judaism Unbound and the Unyeshiva.
#Elul #HighHolidays #Judaism #RoshHashanah #Mazeldon #HumanisticJudaism
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I'm sharing my annual Humanistic blowing of the shofar video for anyone who hasn't had the chance to hear #shofar during his month of Elul (the Jewish month of preparation for the High Holidays)
Im dedicating this to all who are about the work of Tikun Olam (world repair), but especially to my dear friends at The Spinoza Havurah and all of my friends from Judaism Unbound and the Unyeshiva.
#Elul #HighHolidays #Judaism #RoshHashanah #Mazeldon #HumanisticJudaism
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On the thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election,
an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway
stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.The place was called "Gateway House of Prayer",
and it was not exactly a church,
and did not exactly fit into the paradigms of what American Christianity has typically been.Inside, there were no hymnals, no images of Jesus Christ, no parables fixed in stained glass.
Strings of lights hung from the rafters.
A huge map of the world covered one wall.
On the others were seven framed bulletin boards,
each representing a theater of battle between the forces of God and Satan
—government, business, education, family, arts, media, and religion itself.Gateway House of Prayer, it turned out,
was a kind of war room.And if its patrons are to be believed, at least one person, and at peak times dozens,
had been praying every single minute of every single day for more than 15 years
for the victory that now seemed at hand.God was winning.
The Kingdom was coming.
“Hallelujah!” said a woman arriving for the weekly 7 o’clock
“government watch,”
during which a group of 20 or so volunteers sits in a circle and prays for God’s dominion over the nation.“Now the work begins!” a man said.
“We have to fight, fight, fight!”
a grandmother said as they began talking about how a crowd at Trump’s election watch party had launched into the hymn
“How Great Thou Art.”“They were singing that!” another man said.
Yes, people replied;
they had seen a video of the moment.As the mood in the barn became ever more jubilant,
the grandmother pulled from her purse a #shofar,
a hollowed-out ram’s horn used during Jewish services.She blew, understanding that the sound would break through the atmosphere,
penetrate the demonic realm,
and scatter the forces of Satan,
a supernatural strike for the Kingdom of God.A woman fell to the floor.
“Heaven and Earth are coming into alignment!” a man declared.
“The will of heaven is being done on Earth.”
What was happening in the barn in Lancaster County did not represent some fringe of American Christianity,
but rather what much of the faith is becoming.A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years
and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism.At this point, tens of millions of believers
—about 40 percent of American Christians,
including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey
—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement
that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian.
It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.
Early leaders called it the 👉 "New Apostolic Reformation", or #NAR,
although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort
as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light.And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas.
These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets.
That demonic forces can control not only individuals,
but entire territories and institutions.That the Church is not so much a place
as an active “army of God,”
one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom
as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/ -
On the thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election,
an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway
stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.The place was called "Gateway House of Prayer",
and it was not exactly a church,
and did not exactly fit into the paradigms of what American Christianity has typically been.Inside, there were no hymnals, no images of Jesus Christ, no parables fixed in stained glass.
Strings of lights hung from the rafters.
A huge map of the world covered one wall.
On the others were seven framed bulletin boards,
each representing a theater of battle between the forces of God and Satan
—government, business, education, family, arts, media, and religion itself.Gateway House of Prayer, it turned out,
was a kind of war room.And if its patrons are to be believed, at least one person, and at peak times dozens,
had been praying every single minute of every single day for more than 15 years
for the victory that now seemed at hand.God was winning.
The Kingdom was coming.
“Hallelujah!” said a woman arriving for the weekly 7 o’clock
“government watch,”
during which a group of 20 or so volunteers sits in a circle and prays for God’s dominion over the nation.“Now the work begins!” a man said.
“We have to fight, fight, fight!”
a grandmother said as they began talking about how a crowd at Trump’s election watch party had launched into the hymn
“How Great Thou Art.”“They were singing that!” another man said.
Yes, people replied;
they had seen a video of the moment.As the mood in the barn became ever more jubilant,
the grandmother pulled from her purse a #shofar,
a hollowed-out ram’s horn used during Jewish services.She blew, understanding that the sound would break through the atmosphere,
penetrate the demonic realm,
and scatter the forces of Satan,
a supernatural strike for the Kingdom of God.A woman fell to the floor.
“Heaven and Earth are coming into alignment!” a man declared.
“The will of heaven is being done on Earth.”
What was happening in the barn in Lancaster County did not represent some fringe of American Christianity,
but rather what much of the faith is becoming.A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years
and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism.At this point, tens of millions of believers
—about 40 percent of American Christians,
including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey
—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement
that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian.
It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.
Early leaders called it the 👉 "New Apostolic Reformation", or #NAR,
although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort
as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light.And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas.
These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets.
That demonic forces can control not only individuals,
but entire territories and institutions.That the Church is not so much a place
as an active “army of God,”
one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom
as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/ -
The shofar, or ram’s horn, is central to Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing spiritual awakening and remembrance. Here’s why it matters:
1. Call to Repentance – The shofar serves as a spiritual wake-up call, inspiring reflection and renewal for the coming year.
2. Remembrance of the Binding of Isaac – Made from a ram’s horn, it recalls the biblical story where God spared Isaac and provided a ram.
3. Coronation of God – The shofar blast marks God’s kingship and the Jewish people’s commitment to His rule.
4. Symbol of Freedom – Historically, the shofar announced events like the Jubilee. On Rosh Hashanah, it symbolizes hope for redemption.The sounds—Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah—stir emotions, enriching the day’s prayers.
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The shofar, or ram’s horn, is central to Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing spiritual awakening and remembrance. Here’s why it matters:
1. Call to Repentance – The shofar serves as a spiritual wake-up call, inspiring reflection and renewal for the coming year.
2. Remembrance of the Binding of Isaac – Made from a ram’s horn, it recalls the biblical story where God spared Isaac and provided a ram.
3. Coronation of God – The shofar blast marks God’s kingship and the Jewish people’s commitment to His rule.
4. Symbol of Freedom – Historically, the shofar announced events like the Jubilee. On Rosh Hashanah, it symbolizes hope for redemption.The sounds—Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah—stir emotions, enriching the day’s prayers.
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@formandart
It's amazing.
And from a time and area when the #BloodLibel was active.That #Shofar is a symbol of #Judaism.
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism
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@formandart
It's amazing.
And from a time and area when the #BloodLibel was active.That #Shofar is a symbol of #Judaism.
https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism
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Happy new year to everyone except Rahm Emanuel!
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Sorry for the uploading problems earlier, but here is my #Shofar video for 5784!
Besides giving any Jews (and Jewish-adjacent folks) the chance to hear some Shofar for the start of the Jewish New Year, I also have a short message about the importance of being awake and alert to the dangers folks of minority religious traditions face these days in places like Oklahoma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnC9gP4H-xM
#RoshHashanah #ShanahTovah #RoshHashanah2023 #HumanisticJudaism
#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse -
🎶 #haniarani @ Okna dla Ukrainy, Spatif, Warszawa, 14.01.2021
Równo miesiąc temu odbył się benefit 𝗢𝗸𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗹𝗮 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘆 w #SPATiF podczas którego zbieraliśmy środki na projekt OKNO fundacji BRDA https://pomagam.pl/projektokno.
Podczas benefitu rówież wystąpili: #NataliaPrzybysz / #RaphaelRoginski, #Pokusa, #Shofar i #Dziczka.
Autorka filmu: Zuzanna Woińska
#concert #koncert #benefit #music #muzyka #warszawa #warsaw #standforukraine
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𝟯𝟯.𝟯𝟭𝟬 PLN - to kwota, którą zebraliśmy podczas benefitu #OknaDlaUkrainy!! Będzie to dużo okien! Serdecznie dziękujemy wszystkim! ❤
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