The Western Wall
An Orthodox Jew announces the beginning of a new year with the blowing of a shofar. Psalm 81 commands: “Blow the shofar at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day, for it is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.”
All the photographs featured in the calendar were taken by an Israeli photographer named Jack Hazut of www.israelimage.net.
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Orthodox Jews often go to the Western Wall to do formal readings from the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures). This is especially true during feast days.
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