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Shofar
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The shofar, one of the earliest known musical instruments, is usually made from a ram's horn. Used in biblical times to signal important events, it is also blown on High Holy Days (10 days in the fall of the year). It is sounded many times during the services of Rosh ha-Shanah (the Jewish New Year) and once to conclude Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement).
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Credit lineShofar. before 1838. Sulzberger, Leopold. National Museum of American History, Gift of David Sulzberger, 1889. CC0.
