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 ...

In this time, Jews often blow the shofar, a trumpet fashioned from a ram’s horn, to end morning services and recite Psalm 27 (“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”) ...