Chazozra

The prophet Moses is from Elohim prompted: "And the LORD spoke to Moses and said: Make two trumpets of beaten silver..." (4 Mos 10) The straight metal trumpet chazozra can be distinguished from the curved natural horn shofar by its design.

The shape, but not the name, appears to have been imported from Egypt, deriving from the simpler Egyptian military trumpet sheneb, which produced only two notes.

[2] While the chazozra is attributed to the institutionalized sacred area and the circle of power of the Second Temple, the shofar was part of the magical-mystical worship of God[3] According to the Bible, the dedication of Solomon's temple included “…120 priests who blew trumpets.

An illustration of this can be found in the form of two reliefs on the Arch of Titus in Rome (approx.

70 A.D.), which were only added later, around 190 A.D. Flavius Josephus states the length of a chazozra in his book Antiquities of the Jews as a "bare cubit" (approx.