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 ...

CHARLIE: The blowing of the shofar starts a ten-day period. This ends with Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. Many Jewish people like my dad fast for 25 hours and spend most of the day praying.

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