“The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.” Leviticus 23:23-24, NIV. The Feast of Trumpets today is commonly celebrated as Rosh Hashanah. It is a time for personal and communal renewal. The Jewish civil New Year begins with the sound of the shofar (a ram’s horn) which has a loud, piercing noise that breaks through the ordinary and calls God’s people to attention. It is not a feast of celebration, like some of the other feasts, but a…