Naturally, since the song is about Judaism’s holiest day of the year, it begins with the sound of the shofar, an ancient Jewish wind instrument made of a ram’s horn. Singer Lucian Kahn calls o ...

During Rosh Hashanah, we spend a lot of time in the synagogue. One of the rituals there is the blowing of the shofar horn. It's a ram's horn and it's one of the world's oldest-known wind instruments.