El Shofar es un instrumento profético, nos enseña la palabra:
¿Se tocará el Shofar en la ciudad, y no se alborotará el pueblo? ¿Habrá algún mal en la ciudad, el cual Adonai no haya hecho?
Amós.3:6
#Shofar

Dybbuk

Also spelled dibbuk, meaning “to cling,” “to cling,” or “adhere.” This entity is a malicious, restless spirit of a dead person/spirit that “clings” to or possesses the body of a living person or is the dislocated soul of a dead person.

This isn’t a good-natured ancestral ghost. But an earthbound soul that’s been denied peace & seeks refuge (or revenge) within a human host. It supposedly leaves the host body once it has accomplished its goal. Sometimes after being exorcised.

The idea of the dybbuk has roots in Jewish mystical traditions. Specifically the Kabbalah, which gained prominence in the 16th to 18th centuries in Central & Eastern Europe. Earlier accounts of possession, like those given by Josephus, were of demonic possession rather than that of ghosts.

Traditionally, dybbuks tended to be male spirits. Because women couldn’t become dybbuk, they didn’t participate in gilgul. In Hebrew, gilgul means “cycle” or “wheel.” In Kabbalistic esoteric system, gilgul is a concept of reincarnation or transmigration of souls.

Sometimes these spirits were said to possess women on the eve of their weddings. Typically, in a sexual fashion by entering the women through their vaginas. Men & boys could be possessed as well.

In traditional Jewish communities, the idea of the dybbuk served as a socially accepted way of expressing unacceptable urges. Including sexual ones.

Within Jewish mysticism & folklore (particularly in Kabbalistic traditions) protective practices were also used to ward off malevolent spirits. One such practice involves attaching a mezuzah to the doorposts of a home. A mezuzah is a piece of parchment/paper written with a specific Torah verse.

While the mezuzah mainly serves as a reminder of faith & adherence to God’s commandments. It’s also viewed as a protective amulet against harmful spirits, including the dybbuks.

The Zohar, a foundational Kabbalah text, suggests that a properly affixed mezuzah can prevent such entities from entering a home. Also, Jewish folklore includes accounts where neglected or improperly maintained mezuzah were believed to make homes open to dybbuk possession.

In Lurianic Kabbalistic view (a major school of Jewish mysticism), it’s believed that every soul undergoes a process called gilgul (reincarnation) until it has made good all its spiritual flaws & completed its divine mission (tikkun).

A dybbuk is usually the soul of a great sinner. Someone who failed so utterly in life that their soul is deemed unfit for reincarnation or even for the stillness of the afterlife.

Because the soul can’t find rest or transition into a new body, it’s condemned to wander the world, a spiritual refugee. this limbo state between death & full divine judgment is sometimes referred to as the Barzakh in certain mystical texts. The dybbuk, being trapped & tormented, lashes out by invading a living host.

The possession is an act of desperation or malice. Once a dybbuk possesses a person (usually a woman, but not always), the host’s voice may change, becoming that for a dead person. Sometimes they speak in an unfamiliar language (it’s unfamiliar to the speaker/possessed person), or they recite profound, sacred texts they’ve known or seen.

The dybbuk speaks through the host. Often they reveal the sins that condemned it to wander or it accuses the host’s family of a concealed transgression. The host often suffers intense physical & mental anguish.

Because the dybbuk is a spiritual entity with a soul, its removal is an intensely religious act, an exorcism, that requires the intervention of a learned & righteous rabbi. Usually a rabbi is versed in Kabbalistic practices. The ceremony is solemn & ritualistic.

The rabbi, with a quorum of 10 men (minyan) & often holding a shofar (a ram’s horn), tries to reason with the dybbuk, at first, urging the distressed soul to leave in peace to leave in peace & accept its divine judgment.

If the dybbuk resists, the rabbi must use the power of sacred names & oaths. The rabbi may threaten the spirit with complete banishment from the Jewish people (a harsher spiritual punishment than eternal wandering).

The essential moment is when the rabbi calls upon the Divine Name to compel the dybbuk to exit the body. Often through the host’s small toe or finger so as to not cause the host any permanent harm.

As the dybbuk leaves, the shofar is usually sounded to break the spirit’s hold & symbolizes the final severance. The exit is then sealed with a prayer.

The Possession (2012) is a supernatural horror centered around the idea of a dybbuk. The story follows a young girl who becomes possessed by an evil spirit after finding an old box at a yard sale. Jeffrey Dean Morgan & Kyra Sedgwick star in this movie.

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#ShanaTova ! Happy #RoshHashana and "Happy Challah-day"!

It's the Jewish New Year, and this year, it aligns with a #HootinTootinTuesday .

Are you enjoying these puns "shofar"? 😉

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Holiday #JewishHolidays #JewishNewYear #5786 #Challah #Shofar #Puns #DadJokes #Pun

I'm sharing my annual Humanistic blowing of the shofar video for anyone who hasn't had the chance to hear #shofar during his month of Elul (the Jewish month of preparation for the High Holidays)

Im dedicating this to all who are about the work of Tikun Olam (world repair), but especially to my dear friends at The Spinoza Havurah and all of my friends from Judaism Unbound and the Unyeshiva.

#Elul #HighHolidays #Judaism #RoshHashanah #Mazeldon #HumanisticJudaism

https://youtu.be/uXVYUar9i0Q?si=Oz00W_jTCQp-sQha

As we are now in the month of daily #shofar blowing, I wonder if anyone has a link to the hallacha or can summarise? What needs to come beforehand? What about afterwards? When is too early or late in the day?

Edit to add: Also, on the lead up to rosh hashana is it tekiah, shevarim, teruah, tekiah ; tekiah, shevarim, tekiah ; tekiah, teruah, tekiah gadol?

#Mazeldon

📯 Jill Janiec—nutritional health counselor, life coach, and spiritual advisor—joins Eileen to share the Biblical significance and spiritual power of the shofar.

More than a sound, it’s a call to awaken, prepare, and stand firm in faith.
https://bluewaterhealthyliving.com/shows/eileen-tesch-living-exponentially/battlefield-breakthrough-jill-janiec/
#JillJaniec #Shofar #BiblicalTruth #FaithAndWellness #GBSMedia #SpiritualAwakening

On the thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election,
an obscure but telling celebration unfolded inside a converted barn off a highway
stretching through the cornfields of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

The place was called "Gateway House of Prayer",
and it was not exactly a church,
and did not exactly fit into the paradigms of what American Christianity has typically been.

Inside, there were no hymnals, no images of Jesus Christ, no parables fixed in stained glass.

Strings of lights hung from the rafters.

A huge map of the world covered one wall.

On the others were seven framed bulletin boards,
each representing a theater of battle between the forces of God and Satan
—government, business, education, family, arts, media, and religion itself.

Gateway House of Prayer, it turned out,
was a kind of war room.

And if its patrons are to be believed, at least one person, and at peak times dozens,
had been praying every single minute of every single day for more than 15 years
for the victory that now seemed at hand.

God was winning.

The Kingdom was coming.

“Hallelujah!” said a woman arriving for the weekly 7 o’clock
“government watch,”
during which a group of 20 or so volunteers sits in a circle and prays for God’s dominion over the nation.

“Now the work begins!” a man said.

“We have to fight, fight, fight!”
a grandmother said as they began talking about how a crowd at Trump’s election watch party had launched into the hymn
“How Great Thou Art.”

“They were singing that!” another man said.

Yes, people replied;
they had seen a video of the moment.

As the mood in the barn became ever more jubilant,
the grandmother pulled from her purse a #shofar,
a hollowed-out ram’s horn used during Jewish services.

She blew, understanding that the sound would break through the atmosphere,
penetrate the demonic realm,
and scatter the forces of Satan,
a supernatural strike for the Kingdom of God.

A woman fell to the floor.

“Heaven and Earth are coming into alignment!” a man declared.

“The will of heaven is being done on Earth.”

What was happening in the barn in Lancaster County did not represent some fringe of American Christianity,
but rather what much of the faith is becoming.

A shift is under way, one that scholars have been tracking for years
and that has become startlingly visible with the rise of Trumpism.

At this point, tens of millions of believers
—about 40 percent of American Christians,
including Catholics, according to a recent Denison University survey
—are embracing an alluring, charismatic movement
that has little use for religious pluralism, individual rights, or constitutional democracy.

It is mystical, emotional, and, in its way, wildly utopian.

It is transnational, multiracial, and unapologetically political.

Early leaders called it the 👉 "New Apostolic Reformation", or #NAR,
although some of those same leaders are now engaged in a rebranding effort
as the antidemocratic character of the movement has come to light.

And people who have never heard the name are nonetheless adopting the movement’s central ideas.

These include the belief that God speaks through modern-day apostles and prophets.

That demonic forces can control not only individuals,
but entire territories and institutions.

That the Church is not so much a place
as an active “army of God,”
one with a holy mission to claim the Earth for the Kingdom
as humanity barrels ever deeper into the End Times.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/

#Mira is looking at the #shofar on top of my bookshelf and meowing.

Uhh, NO girlie. You're not pouncing on my shofar. Leave it alone, kiddo. Please. ^__^'

The shofar, or ram’s horn, is central to Rosh Hashanah, symbolizing spiritual awakening and remembrance. Here’s why it matters:

1. Call to Repentance – The shofar serves as a spiritual wake-up call, inspiring reflection and renewal for the coming year.
2. Remembrance of the Binding of Isaac – Made from a ram’s horn, it recalls the biblical story where God spared Isaac and provided a ram.
3. Coronation of God – The shofar blast marks God’s kingship and the Jewish people’s commitment to His rule.
4. Symbol of Freedom – Historically, the shofar announced events like the Jubilee. On Rosh Hashanah, it symbolizes hope for redemption.

The sounds—Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah—stir emotions, enriching the day’s prayers.

#shofar #roshhashanah #jewishtraditions #art

@formandart
It's amazing.
And from a time and area when the #BloodLibel was active.

That #Shofar is a symbol of #Judaism.

https:// en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_antisemitism

Happy new year to everyone except Rahm Emanuel!

#roshhashanah #chicago #rahmemanuel #shofar

Sorry for the uploading problems earlier, but here is my #Shofar video for 5784!

Besides giving any Jews (and Jewish-adjacent folks) the chance to hear some Shofar for the start of the Jewish New Year, I also have a short message about the importance of being awake and alert to the dangers folks of minority religious traditions face these days in places like Oklahoma.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnC9gP4H-xM

#RoshHashanah #ShanahTovah #RoshHashanah2023 #HumanisticJudaism
#Mazeldon #Jewdiverse

#roshhashanah #jesus #shofar #article #bibleproject

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0o8Kd14kWN3tcmL68uDKCJdUQbix4RQCwf5ZtBP4VocK8V5d6X72guZHMAvL5iVhjl&id=100082864422463&mibextid=qC1gEa

The fact the blowing of the #shofar for #RoshHaShanah and the #GritoDeDolores are happening at roughly the same time this year couldn’t be any more perfect for me.

🎶 #haniarani @ Okna dla Ukrainy, Spatif, Warszawa, 14.01.2021

https://youtu.be/u1jgOiAUBTA

Równo miesiąc temu odbył się benefit 𝗢𝗸𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗹𝗮 𝗨𝗸𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘆 w #SPATiF podczas którego zbieraliśmy środki na projekt OKNO fundacji BRDA https://pomagam.pl/projektokno.

Podczas benefitu rówież wystąpili: #NataliaPrzybysz / #RaphaelRoginski, #Pokusa, #Shofar i #Dziczka.

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𝟯𝟯.𝟯𝟭𝟬 PLN - to kwota, którą zebraliśmy podczas benefitu #OknaDlaUkrainy!! Będzie to dużo okien! Serdecznie dziękujemy wszystkim! ❤

Udało się to wszystko dzięki klubu #SPATiF, #RaphaelRoginski, #Pokusa, #HaniaRani, #Shofar, #NataliaPrzybysz, #Dziczka, Olena Zots i Alexey Vorsoba, #ArtPole, Krystyna Dobrzańska, Klaudia Kozińska, #Pogranicze, Taras Gembik, Lubie Cię Booking, #BRDA i wielu innym organizacjom i osobom!!!

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Bardzo dziękujemy wszystkim za wczorajszy niesamowity wieczór #OknaDlaUkrainy! Dzięki wam w ukraińskich domach będzie cieplej a my jeszcze długo będziemy wspominać ten wspaniały wieczór!

Serdeczne podziękowania dla artystek i artystów #Dziczka, #HaniaRani, #NataliaPrzybysz, #RaphaelRogiński, #Pokusa, #Shofar ! 🎶 Bardzo dziękujemy wszystkim, które i którzy wzięły i wzięli udział w tym wydarzeniu! Ogromne podziękowania dla klubu #Spatif!

#benefit #music #muzyka #concert #warsaw #poland

Is the #shofar … an Instrument of Technological Disruption? #nyt https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/17/style/marc-zuckerberg-blowing-shofar.html #mr