Echoes of a Shofar -שופרות של מרד

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Toldot Yisrael (‪www.toldotyisrael.org‬) presents the story of six Jewish heroes who defiantly blew the shofar at the Kotel (Western Wall) over sixty years ago, when it was illegal to do so in British Mandatory Palestine. The British passed a law in 1930 forbidding Jews to blow the shofar at the Kotel, pray loudly there, or bring Torah scrolls, so as not to offend the Arab population.
Despite this restriction, for the next seventeen years, the shofar was sounded at the Kotel every Yom Kippur. Shofars were smuggled in to the Kotel where brave teenagers defiantly blew them at the conclusion of the fast. Some managed to get away - others were captured and sent to jail for up to six months.
Six of these men are still alive.
Two weeks ago, these six men returned to the scene of their "crime". Armed with shofars, they recounted their individual stories and blew shofar again at the Kotel.
Echoes of a Shofar is the premiere episode in the "Eyewitness 1948" short film series produced by Toldot Yisrael and the History Channel. It is the centerpiece of an educational pilot program developed with The iCenter and made possible through the generous support of the Jim Joseph Foundation and others.
Producer
Eric Halivni (Weisberg)
Director and Editor
Tal Ella
Production and Cinematography
Peleg Levy
Narrator
Troy De Lowe
Editor
Nahum Grinberg
Original Score and Sound Editor
Uri Kalian
מפיק: אריה הלבני
במאי ועורך : טל אלה
הפקה וצילום: פלג לוי
עורך וידאו: נחום גרינברג
מוסיקה ומיקס: אורי קליאן, סוויט סאונד
קריין: טרוי דילו

Пікірлер: 87

@ericakaras 12 жыл бұрын

Such a beutiful story!!! I greatly admire the bravery of these men!! Brought tears to my eyes. This is the committment we have to have for HaShem. Shalom and agape love!

@alma6911 9 жыл бұрын

It is as if every generation has its 'Davids' I cry tears of joy whenever I watch this video.Thanks for posting.

@OudeRaaf 10 жыл бұрын

Brave old man, deepest respect for them.

@HadasahB 13 жыл бұрын

The story these dear men tell made me laugh, made me cry, and deeply blessed my heart. Amazing in every way!

@keilajew 11 жыл бұрын

These narratives are marvelous, brave and thrilling me!!!! God bless each one of Our courageous People!!!! Glory to The One Eternal Of YIsrael!!!! Halleluyah!!!!!! Shanah Tovah , my beloved Israel!!!!!

@imimim1 14 жыл бұрын

What an incredible story. Wow! The most inspiring I've seen in a very long time. May we be blessed with the shofar blowing that heralds the Messiah with our rebuilt Temple.

@myriamberwil 14 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this beautiful and lovely story. Shaná Tová ve Gmar Hatima Tova!

@leonkushner 11 жыл бұрын

What incredible, strong, brave, moral, men. It's an honour to be part of the same religion as they are! Yesher Koach!

@smlourie 12 жыл бұрын

I know that Rav Kook the chief rabbi in the 1920's and 1930's kept fasting till midnight and walked to the police station till they released one of the blowers back then!!! GRAND TZADIK

@cshook123 12 жыл бұрын

I'm Christian but I love to hear the blowing of the shofar.

@EdGreenberg 14 жыл бұрын

It's my honor to have watched this video and learned of this history. Everybody who blows or hears the Shofar, in freedom and peace, owes a debt of gratitude to these men who risked their freedom (and worse) to carry on our holy traditions. Everybody who blows the shofar for a congregation, anywhere, stands with these men as brothers, and should consider themselves privileged. I know that I do.

@Claudia1709 14 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful story! I hope I find many more to help celebrate Yom Kippur especially because it also falls on my birthday this year. Despite the fact I am a Christian I feel especially blessed learning the roots of my wonderful, positive religion. Jews have such a wonderful heritage and of course are proud of it. It shines in the eyes of these men.

@FresnoJoe2 11 жыл бұрын

Hallelujah~!

@EmunaSarah 11 жыл бұрын

Baruch Hashem for our brave Jewish men!

@romo123ism 14 жыл бұрын

Lovely, lovely story. Thanks. Shana Tova.

@mathmusic1490 3 жыл бұрын

These men were so brave. This video brings tears to my eyes as an American Jew who loves Judaism and who loves Israel

@TeachESL 11 жыл бұрын

Interesting...there were men and women together at the Kotel back then.

@xdoobs 14 жыл бұрын

beautiful, thanks.

@mparkerlisberg 14 жыл бұрын

Wonderful, more like this please. The last and first Shofar blowers at the Kotel at the same time, coincidence, I don't think so, nisi. Shana Tova Malcolm

@swedgoy 14 жыл бұрын

Really, really inspiring !

@HONNESTVIEW 11 жыл бұрын

The sound of Shofar recalls the jews from all over the world to live as a free people and to remain close to G...and Eretz Israel

@kaystreetgirl 14 жыл бұрын

A moving video. Now, if only we had complete religious freedom at the Kotel in our own time: just as these young men risked arrest to give voice to their religious longings in the blowing of the shofar, so do the Women of the Wall risk arrest to assert their right to pray at the Kotel. Just as the British forbid the shofar blowing to appease those against a Jewish presence in Jerusalem, some women are prevented from reading Torah and singing - to appease one sect of Jews.

@bigred997 14 жыл бұрын

yashar kochachem ad me'ah va'esrim !

@kemathenga 13 жыл бұрын

This video is so, So, SO, SOOOO encouraging. I'm telling everybody I see about it. It seems such a trifle to others to blow a horn at an ancient piece of wall, but the way that man when he's telling about coming back to Jerusalem as a soldier "let's go to the Kotel". I mean, it's the only thing left from the time 2000 years ago, the temple, and it's still THERE and so are the Jewish people. And it's because of many, many seemingly "trifles" that they are.

@nandor1 14 жыл бұрын

Quite an incredible snippet of Jewish History. גמר חתימה טובה

@RonMidwife 11 жыл бұрын

Interesting, in light of the fact that Anat Hoffman was just arrested at the Kotel for the terrible crime of being a woman praying the sh'ma. I guess we have not come very far.

@lakeeriejew 14 жыл бұрын

These Jewish heroes did not suffer from the Eastern European "Persecution Disease" that so many of their contemporaries did. God bless them. They are the true "Liberated Jews".

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

to Nakedbison69 - not insulting Orthodox Judaism but criticizing religious coercion and promoting civil rights and freedom of religion. Also pointing out the irony that at the same place separated by 60 years, people are arrested for religious expression - it is that simple but I guess Bison don't inderstand that.

@PamelaProPeace 14 жыл бұрын

When you hear the shofar this year take a moment to reflect what it was like to live at a time when such a simple Jewish action could not be taken for granted. And if you think I am talking about way-back-when somewhere "Beyond the Pale" let me remind you that blowing the shofar in our own homeland, the Land of Israel, was for many years forbidden.

@gg63lackey 11 жыл бұрын

I love it!!

@TruthCeeker333 14 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@gtamir613 14 жыл бұрын

It's a shame that this great country has gotten to the point where a woman gets arrested for carrying a Torah at the Kotel.

@ChikkyMonkey 14 жыл бұрын

Beautiful!!

@lakeeriejew 13 жыл бұрын

@renayitz They either originated from Eastern Europe or from Arab lands. These interviews are taking place 60 years after those events so their accents are not a good indicator of their origin. The point simply as that they had a mindset of "Liberation, freedom self- assertion". Mentally, they refused to submit to the anti-Semitic occupying force. It's the mindset of the Irgun that successfully drove the British out by striking back at them with the same aggression that the British dealt them

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

While women are allowed to come into the Kotel on their side, they are required to observe the ultra-orthodox rules that will not allow them to pray in their own tradition if that tradition includes reading, or even carrying a Torah or wearing a talit as a talit is traditionally worn (they do allow them to wear it like a scarf wrapped around their necks - isn't that special?).

@astralmarmoset 13 жыл бұрын

Cool video. It just makes me wish so many people didn't have to die for us to be able to practice our different religions.

@vaskskates 13 жыл бұрын

Love this video

@OrlandoProf 13 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@PamelaProPeace 14 жыл бұрын

Next time you think that Israel should be prepared to "make painful concessions for peace" just remember what it was like when those "partners for peace" were in charge! From 1948 to 1967 the holiest place for Jews did not reverberate to the sound of the shofar at the culmination of Yom Kippur. Shana Tova Metukah Gmar Hatima Tova!

@mkmkm52 14 жыл бұрын

This was great!

@SteinbergJudith 9 жыл бұрын

BIG LIKE

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

I viewed the shofar and the list of yearly blowers. They are displayed at the Etzel Museum situated along the beach in southern Tel Aviv near Jaffa. Here is the link to its website: gal-ed.co.il/etzel/

@sara35ish 9 жыл бұрын

wow

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@kaystreetgirl There is no comparison and no relation between the prohibitions of the British or the Moslem rulers of the Temple Mount , to the halachic rulings of the rabbis in charge of the Kotel. You can still daven at the Kotel. You cannot daven on the Temple Mount.

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@eSpectionportal The War of Independence of the 13 colonies comes to mind. Those colonies who declared their independence from Britain against the will of the Empire are still Israel's most powerful allies, Obama and Mrs. Clinton notwithstanding. India, too, was a thorn in the side of the empire, and the Islamic area that became Pakistan is still a hotbed of trouble, similar to the Arabs fomenting trouble for Israel.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

I am very sorry that there are people who are cluttering up this wonderful and important piece of our history with hatred and distorted arguments. May the strength of the people who had the courage to do what they knew was right in their hearts pass down to those who continue to fight for their religious freedoms in our homeland.

@lakeeriejew 13 жыл бұрын

@francine1836 Women can get as close to the Kosel as men can. It's divided down the middle. Women will not get arrested for carrying a Torah.

@myriamberwil 14 жыл бұрын

@elizabethgage Amen!!!

@moranih 8 жыл бұрын

So we complain the Palestinians don't have freedom. What about these?

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@elizabethgage Amen v'Amen

@YardleyFiske 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 You may want to Google "Women of the Wall."

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 I want to what? First or all, I am an Israeli and thousands of other Israelis - many sabras - have the same traditions. Second, why would I want Orthodox Jews to do what I do? My argument is that all Jews should be able to practice their traditions and that in a place like the Kotel which is NOT an Orthodox synagogue but a courtyard outside the walls of the Temple that is holy to ALL Jews, EVERYONE should respect each other's traditions - even ultra-right ones.

@catholicschooljew 14 жыл бұрын

@ NPcindy: What a pity you that had to spoil this magnificent video with your bigoted remark.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 What I said - if you had paid attention - was that it was the Ultra-Orthodox who call the Women of the Wall Nazis and throw chairs at the Women of the Wall. Do you think that this is behavior that commands respect? If so, that's your problem.

@reginaDexant 13 жыл бұрын

Dare to be a Daniel.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 Same ole same ole - still don't know why this person is so obsessed with Obama though - pretty weird. I mean, what does Obama have to do with Women being arrested at the Kotel for praying? To the un-initiated out there, this is the kind of mentality we have to deal with here in Israel. It is a shame what sometimes happens to religion - we see it in Islam with Taliban and in Judaism too. Hard to be sympathetic but one has to if only to pity those who hide in their darkness...

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@lakeeriejew According to their Hebrew accents, these particular interviewees were not from Eastern Europe for the most part, if at all. There were thousands of European Jews who were equally brave. Please do not blame the victims of the cruel gun-toting Nazis for the systematic, legalized murder of European Jews.

@globe255 14 жыл бұрын

As far as i understand it, you were not allowed to blow the shofar because it could escalate a kind of conflict or simply create it. But it sounds totally weird and wrong in every way you arent allowed to act the way you want in your own country. Im very happy the Israel people have the power today. Best wishes forever.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 Whose not being honest? Who is being arrogant? Self-righteous? To call the way 85-per-cent of the World's pray not Judaism? Women of the Wall are brave Jewish women who have only the highest regard for Jewish Law and practice - none of which is being broken here. God will bless them and curse those who disparage them.

@ytbrtzg 14 жыл бұрын

@catholicschooljew You can call it bigoted. I call it 'right on'. Thanks, NPcindy.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 If Conservative Judaism - which is based on Halacha - is NOT Judaism - then what is it? More precisely, what about it is NOT Judaism? Because women are allowed to take on the time-bound mitzvot? FYI, women are not "obligated" to but there is nothing that prevents them. You obviously have a lot to learn about Masorti Traditions which is understandable.

@LeonTheVeteran 12 жыл бұрын

Those people are the reason i am proud to be a Jew. Israel, i will be there in three years :)

@sam46ist 11 жыл бұрын

lol nice

@azra1171 10 жыл бұрын

God bless israel

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 not insulting Orthodox Judaism but criticizing religious coercion and promoting civil rights and freedom of religion. Also pointing out the irony that at the same place separated by 60 years, people are arrested for religious expression - it is that simple.

@TheTallitMan 12 жыл бұрын

This is a great video and there have been times where I have been told to not sound the Shofar but I have always defied that type of oppression.. I love the sound of the Shofar so much that I currently own a business that its main item sold is the Shofar. Check out our 340+ videos and thetallitman(dot)com

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

@nakedBison69 Dig Dig Dig but there's no way out - Self-Hating Jew, say what? sounds like this Bison has his own complex with his faith that he has to put others' down. Such a shame....Such a shame but whose to blame????

@bigred997 14 жыл бұрын

@catholicschooljew her remark wasn't bigoted. she was right on! your moniker expresses your own demented values.

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@YardleyFiske Your comment is ridiculous and shows a lack of knowledge of both Jews and Nazis. Plus, you don't even understand what discrimination means.

@gtamir613 13 жыл бұрын

Let me try again to explain what civil rights are. In America - and hopefully someday in Israel - one has the right to practice one's religion without government interference. This is enshrined in the Constitution (hence it's a civil right) which America has and hopefully someday, so too will Israel.

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@YardleyFiske Your ignorance is showing. You don't even know the meaning of the words "discriminate" and "Nazi." The Ultra Orthodox were killed by Nazi guns and killed in concentration camps. What special treatment do the Ultra Orthodox get today? Many of the men do not serve in the Israeli forces, because they get exemptions. Otherwise, the Ultra Orthodox , mostly poor folk, live in their private communities with rules that no one else has to follow.

@renayitz 13 жыл бұрын

@rlcohen36 Your arguments are out of proportion and show a lack of historical and religious perspective. How dare you compare the rules of rabbis and the Israeli government to the prohibitions enforced by the nonhumanitarian Moslem rulers of the Temple Mount, who would argue that you have no religious or historical connection to the Temple Mount, Jerusalem and all of Israel. Progress has nothing to do with the Kotel and the Temple Mount. History and tradition is everything.