when you go to war in your land against the enemy who attacks you then you will sound an alarm with the trumpets with the chofar that you may be remembered before the Lord your God and be saved from your enemies open up if you have your Bibles to Leviticus 23 Leviticus 23 and I’m going to read what we read from the scroll but that you can see it verse 23 2323 again the Lord spoke to Moses saying speak to the children of Israel saying in the seventh month on the first day of the month you will have a Sabbath a memorial by the sounding of the chofar
a holy convocation you will do no laborious work but you will present an offering by fire to the Lord on the seventh day or the first day of the seventh month the first day of the seventh month the Feast of trumpets now the most famous sounding of the chofar in modern times was what happened at the crowning moment of the Six Day War when Rabbi schlomo guren in Jerusalem sounded the chopar at the Western Wall among the soldiers who had just liberated the wall and was the moment that Jerusalem after 2,000 years was restored to the Jewish
people but that moment was in the making for some time people don’t realize there was more to it Rabbi goren believed that one day Jerusalem would be liberated it would be part of the Redemption of the Jewish people and he actually carried around a chofar before that day in the first days of the war he had his chofar with him in his Jeep Rabbi guran was the military chaplain he had the title of general and he was involved literally with a fighting in the south when his Jeep was destroyed his chofar was burned up and
as the war then opened up over Jerusalem he made it to the city and he encouraged the leaders to go for the city they were reluctant because they believed the world would condemn them and they were right but he was right because it would lead to one of the most prophetic events of modern history the regaining The Liberation of Jerusalem the restoration when he got to Jerusalem he didn’t have a chofar so he sent for his father-in-law and his father-in-law was an esteemed Rabbi and he lived right by the old city so he asked him if he could
use a chofar the old Rabbi went up on his shelf retrieved the congregation’s chofar and gave it to him when the Israeli soldiers broke through the Lion’s gate Rabbi Goran followed them right there were gunshots firing out there would tell him be careful don’t he didn’t care he just walked through the streets and he had his chauff far before he even got to the wall before he even got to the Temple Mount he was sounding it as he was coming through the Lion’s gate why well there is a mystery we know linked to the Jubilee it all happened in
