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observance and customs
A
shofar in the Yemenite Jewish style
Rosh
Hashanah is a day of rest (Leviticus 23:24): with some variations,
the activities prohibited on Shabbat are not prohibited on all major
Jewish holidays unless that day also falls on Shabbat, excluding
Yom Kippur which the Torah refers to as a "Shabbaton"
and is always observed with the strictures of Shabbat.
Rosh
Hashanah is characterized by the blowing of the shofar,[6]
a trumpet
made from a ram's horn.
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