Rosh Hashanah is called Yom Teruah, the day of the sounding of the horn. But what instrument fulfills this mitzvah? The Torah itself does not specify, entrusting the Oral Torah (Torah she’ba‘al peh) ...

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In 1737-8, Johann Sebastian Bach composed and performed a cantata, "O Jesu Christ, meins lebens licht" ("O Jesus Christ, light of my life"). Among the instruments called for in the score are "two ...

This cow horn, one of many, is at the Edward Jenner Musuem in Berkeley. According to the silver inscription it was polished by Edward Jenner himself and given as a gift, which was later passed on to ...