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Rosch ha-Schanah is called "the day of the shofar"
In Israel starts with Rosch ha-Schanah the ten highest holidays of the year. Rosch ha-Schanah is only the first of these days and means "the day of the shofar".
The shofar is not only ab instrument to worship the LORD, but as well to proclaim victory. God himself gave it in 3 Mose 23:23-25:
The Festival of Trumpets
The LORD said to Moses, “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. On the first day of the appointed month in early autumn, you are to observe a day of complete rest. It will be an official day for holy assembly, a day commemorated with loud blasts of a trumpet.
It is interesting, here is written "trumpet", in the German translation it is the trombone. Nevertheless, the shofar was the instrument in those days, and in God´s Kingdom, it hasn´t lost its importance. When the Holy Spirit leads us to blow the shofar in our time of worship, then it is always a kind of proclamation. Either it is the call for a spiritual fight, the proclamation of victory, or an expression of worshiping the LORD.
