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Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)

1st Day of the 7th Month

Overview

The Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) is held on the 1st day of the 7th month of the year and lasts for 1 day.

The Day of Trumpets is a mo’edim (appointed time) that is to be celebrated each year (forever) according to Torah.

Shofar

Torah Requirements

General commandments:

  • It is a Shabbat (day of rest) – no laborious work is to be done
  • Trumpets (shofars) are to be blown in celebration
  • 2 silver trumpets are to be blown over the burnt offerings

Required burnt offerings (`olah):

  • 1 young male bull without blemish
  • 1 ram without blemish
  • 7 male lambs, each 1 year old, without blemish

Required food offerings (minchah) for the burnt offerings (`olah):

  • Flour mixed with oil (3/10 of an ephah for the bull, 2/10 of an ephah for the ram, 1/10 of an ephah for each of the 7 lambs)

Required sin offerings (chatta’ah):

  • 1  male goat

Day of Trumpets in the Torah

Leviticus 23:23 And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,
Leviticus 23:24 Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, a Holy Day Sabbath shall be to you, a memorial acclamation of the resounding of trumpets, a holy gathering.
Leviticus 23:25 You shall do no laborious work and you shall bring a fire offering to YAHWEH.

Numbers 10:1 And YAHWEH spoke to Moses, saying,
Numbers 10:2 Make two trumpets of silver for yourself. You shall make them of hammered work, and they shall be to you for the calling of the congregation, and for causing the camps to pull up stakes.
Numbers 10:3 And when they blow with them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 10:4 And if they blow with one, then the rulers, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall assemble to you.
Numbers 10:5 And when you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall then pull up stakes.
Numbers 10:6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall pull up stakes; they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
Numbers 10:7 But when the assembly is gathered, you shall blow, but you shall not sound an alarm.
Numbers 10:8 And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets. And they shall be to you for a never ending statute throughout your generations.
Numbers 10:9 And when you go into battle in your land against the foe distressing you, then you shall blow with the trumpets, and you shall be remembered before YAHWEH your Elohim. And you shall be saved from your enemies.
Numbers 10:10 And in the day of your gladness, and in your appointed times, and in your new moons, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. And they shall be to you for a memorial before your Elohim. I am YAHWEH your Elohim.

Numbers 29:1 And in the seventh month, on the first of the month you shall have a holy gathering; you shall do no work of service. It shall be a day of blowing the trumpets to you.
Numbers 29:2 And you shall prepare a burnt offering for a soothing fragrance to YAHWEH: one bull, a son of the herd, one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, without blemish;
Numbers 29:3 and their food offering, flour mixed with oil, three tenths parts for the bull, two tenths parts for the ram,
Numbers 29:4 and one tenth part for each of the seven lambs;
Numbers 29:5 and one kid of the goats, a sin offering to atone for you;
Numbers 29:6 besides the burnt offering of the month, and its food offering, and the continual burnt offering, and its food offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance for soothing fragrance, a fire offering to YAHWEH.