{"id":1738,"date":"2018-06-20T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T09:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/2018\/06\/20\/rabbi-saadia-gaons-10-reasons-for-sounding-the-shofar"},"modified":"2019-09-25T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T06:48:02","slug":"rabbi-saadia-gaons-10-reasons-for-sounding-the-shofar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/2018\/06\/20\/rabbi-saadia-gaons-10-reasons-for-sounding-the-shofar\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Saadia Gaon&#8217;s 10 Reasons for Sounding the Shofar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post summarizes ten different symbolic explanations as to why we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saadia_Gaon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rabbi Saadia Gaon,<\/a> including\u00a0to proclaim God as King, to serve as a spiritual wake up call, to recall the revelation of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the Binding of Isaac, and to foreshadow the ultimate redemption.\u00a0<\/em><em>Rabbi Saadia Gaon (late 9th &#8211; mid 10th century), was one of the most prominent Jewish philosophers and commentators of the Geonic period.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/27\/2018\/10\/shofar-10-reasons.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">shofar 10 reasons<br\/><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post summarizes ten different symbolic explanations as to why we blow the shofar on Rosh Hashana, according to Rabbi Saadia Gaon, including\u00a0to proclaim God as King, to serve as a spiritual wake up call, to recall the revelation of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the Binding of Isaac, and to foreshadow the ultimate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":1739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3695],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12191,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/12191\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kol-ami.kulam.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}