By Paul Goldfinger, MD. Editor Blogfinger.net. Re-post from 2011 in Ocean Grove, NJ
Now here’s an Ocean Grove sound that many of you probably have never heard before. It was Saturday, Flea Market day, and we were sitting in Auditorium Park when a cacophony rang out from the front door of the Youth Temple. The sound was that of multiple shofars (rams’ horns) being blown simultaneously. There were people dancing around. By the time I got over there with my iPhone, I caught the tail end of a celebration by the “Jews for Jesus.”
A woman wearing a large star of David on her chest told me that the group was from all over and that they were Christians who were also Jewish. In the Jewish tradition, the shofar is usually blown one at a time, inside a synagogue, on the high holidays. But, considering that the first Christians were actually Jews for Jesus, I guess they can blow the shofar anyway they please.
2024: I met some Messianic Jews here this summer. It was a teen group in the Tabernacle. Here is a link:
You are correct. According to Halacha (Jewish law) if you blow more than one Shofar at a time, you cannot fulfill the commandment of hearing the Shofar.
Have to disagree with you, Nancy, as I believe that Fat Al got it right!
Well, yes, some are.
Jews for Jesus aren’t practicing Jews in any conceivable sense of the religion, so a church is as appropriate as anywhere I guess. To each his own.