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Classes by Mordechai Dinerman

Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts

11 Sep 2024

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In this episode, we’re diving into fascinating early 16th-century woodcut images and priceless medieval machzor manuscripts to see how they portray the mitzvah of blowing the shofar. We’ll explore the unique details in these images that reveal interesting minhagim of the time, though some might leave us with more questions than answers. Let’s uncover the stories these images tell about our tradition. Links: Book on Jewish Confession (Nuremberg 1508) https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/thumbview/6515799   Der Juden Spiegel (Cologne 1508) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1911061m/f39.double   Luzzato Machzor https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/the-luzzatto-high-holiday-mahzor-1   Machzor – Bavarian State Library https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00034975?page=82   Kaufmann Machzor - Hungarian Academy of Sciences http://kaufmann.mtak.hu/en/ms388/ms388-012v.htm   Machzor – Cambridge University Library https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-00662/127 Machzor – Austrian National Library https://www.nli.org.il/en/discover/manuscripts/hebrew-manuscripts/viewerpage?vid=MANUSCRIPTS#d=[[PNX_MANUSCRIPTS990001692630205171-1,FL21854414]] Art of the Blast: Shofar Blowing Customs in Medieval Manuscripts

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