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When was the shofar invented?

HistoryFirst mentioned in Exodus 19:16 at the Mt. Sinai, to proclaim the awesomeness of the Ten Commandments, the shofar became an instrument accompanying sacrifices in the Tabernacle and then the Temple. As the sacrificial cult progressed, the shofar and the trumpet accompanied some of the offerings. While there were usually a trumpet and a shofar, with the trumpet taking the long notes, on Rosh Hashanah, the shofar sounded the long notes. See RH 33b. The Shofar accompanied the special sacrifices on Rosh Hashanah, the holiday designated as "Yom Teruah" ("A day of blowing"; Num. 29:1). The shofar proclaimed the Jubilee Year on Yom Kippur (Lev. 25:9-10). The ancients also used it to accompany other musical instruments (Ps. 98:6); in processionals (Josh. 6:4ff.); as a signal (Josh. 6:12ff., II Sam. 15:10); as a call to war (Judg. 3:27); and to induce fear (Amos 3:6).At a later period, the Rabbi's postulated that the ram's horn was preferred in order to recall the binding of Isaac for whose sacrifice a ram was substituted (RH 16a; see Gen. 22:13). The Rabbi's rules that a curved shofarsymbolizes humankind bowing in submission to God's will (RH 26b)Although the Bible is silent on the reason a shofar specifically accompanies holy events. The Rabbi's gave their oral interpretations. Saadiah Gaon (see Abudraham ha-Shalem, ed. S. Krauser (1959), 269-70) states:(1) Trumpets are sounded at a coronation and God is hailed as King on this day.(2) The shofar heralds the beginning of the penitential season (from Rosh Hasanah to the Day of Atonement).(3) The Torah was given on Sinai accompanied by blasts of the shofar.(4) The prophets compare their message to the sound of the shofar.(5) The conquering armies that destroyed the Temple sounded trumpet blasts.(6) The ram was substituted for Isaac.(7) The prophet asks: "Shall the horn be blown in a city, and the people not tremble?" (Amos 3:6).(8) The prophet Zephaniah speaks of the great "day of the Lord" (Judgment Day) as a "day of the horn and alarm" (Zeph. 1:14, 16).(9) The prophet Isaiah speaks of the great shofar which will herald the messianic age (Isa. 27:13).(10) The shofar will be sounded at the resurrection.Maimonides writes:Awake from your slumbers, ye who have fallen asleep in life, and reflect on your deeds. Remember your Creator. Be not of those who miss reality in the pursuit of shadows, and waste their years in seeking after vain things which neither profit nor save. Look well to your souls and improve your character. Forsake each of you his evil ways and thoughts." (Yad, Teshuvah 3:4)Other UsesIn about 400 C.E. in Babylonia, the shofar was sounded to announce a death (MK 27b). During the Middle Ages also, the shofar announced fasts (see Ta'an. 1:6), excommunications (see Sanh. 76 and MK 16a); and funerals.In Biblical Jewish life, to prepare for the Sabbath, on Friday afternoon, six blasts were sounded at various intervals. At the first tekiah, the laborers in the fields ceased their work. At the second, shops were closed and city laborers ceased to work. The third signaled that it was time to kindle the Sabbath lights. And the fourth, fifth, and sixth were a tekiah, teruah and tekiah formally ushering in the Sabbath (Shab. 35b).In modern times, the shofar, as a symbol of ancient Judaism, was used at the inauguration of a new president of Israel. After the Six-Day War in June 1967, the chief rabbi of the Israel army blew it at the Western Wall after its liberation by the Israel Defense Forces, using the same shofar which he had sounded on Mt. Sinai in 1956.Clearly, the shofar is identified as uniquely Jewish.

How do you I booby trap my apt when I am not there?

Just get a portable alarm. If you booby trapped your apartment and someone got hurt you could be held libel and arrested. There was a fellow a few years ago that owned a store in NYC that kept getting broken into so he booby trapped the roof opening. The guy who broken in that night died and the store owner was held for manslaughter. You can buy an alarm that runs on batteries and will go off if a beam is broken.

What did the Greeks invent that you still use?

They invented geometry , streets , sex , philosophy , poetry , alphabet , cranes , stair cases , crossbow (weapon ) , wheelbarrow , bathroom , showers , plumbing , central heating , light house , alarm clock , levers , vending machines , automatic doors and the list goes on by kyri efthymiou

What was the most important thing the Ancient Greeks gave us?

Some technological inventions that we credit to the Ancient Greeks include the screw, water organ, torsion catapult, water clock and rotary mills. Most of this was developed during the 5th century BC. The Greeks also introduced the idea of a democratic government which they called "demokratia" (meaning "rule by the people"), the Olympic games and the Hippocratic Oath taken by medical professionals.

In ancient times how did you tell time?

After the Sumerians, the Egyptians were the next to formally divide their day into parts something like hours. Slender, tapering, four-sided monuments (Obekusjs) were built as early as 3500 BC. Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling citizens to partition the day into two parts by indicating noon. They also showed the year's longest and shortest days, when the shadow at noon was the shortest or longest of the year. Another Egyptian shadow clock or sundial, possibly the first portable timepiece, came into use around 1500 BC to measure the passage of 'hours'. This device divided a sunlit day into 10 parts, plus two 'twilight hours' in the morning and evening. When the long stem with five variably spaced marks was oriented east and west in the morning, an elevated crossbar on the east end cast a moving shadow over the marks. At noon, the device was turned in the opposite direction to measure the afternoon 'hours'. The Greeks invented a prototype of the alarm clock around 250 BC. They also built a water clock where clock where the raising waters would both keep time and eventually hit a mechanical bird that triggered an alarm. In 1908, the Westclox Clock Company is issued a patent for the Big Ben alarm clock. The outstanding feature on this clock is the bell-back, which completely envelopes the inner case back and is an integral part of the case. The bell-back provides loud alarm.

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