“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
To sound the trumpets over the offerings and in times of trouble
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
וּתְקַעְתֶּם בַּחֲצֹצְרֹת עַל עֹלֹתֵיכֶם וְעַל זִבְחֵי שַׁלְמֵיכֶם וְהָיוּ לָכֶם לְזִכָּרוֹן לִפְנֵי אֱלֹהֵיכֶם
In Maimonides’ words
How Maimonides defines this commandment in his Sefer HaMitzvot — his own words, shown as a primary source.
היא שצונו לתקוע בחצוצרות במקדש עם הקרבת הקרבן מקרבני המועדות. והוא אמרו יתעלה וביום שמחתכם ובמועדיכם ותקעתם וגו'. ובבאור אמרו שמצוה זו בחצוצרות. וכבר התבארו משפטי מצוה זו בספרי וראש השנה ותענית, וכן אנחנו מצווים לתקוע בחצוצרות בעתות הצורך והצרות כשנזעק לפני השם יתעלה, והוא אמרו וכי תבאו מלחמה בארצכם על הצר הצורר אתכם וגו'. (בהעלותך, הלכות תענית פ"א):
And that is that He commanded us to blow with trumpets in the Temple during the bringing of the holiday offerings. And that is His, may He be exalted, saying, "And on your joyous occasions and on your festivals [...], you shall blow, etc." (Numbers 10:10). In the explanation (Rosh Hashanah 26b), they said that this commandment (on public fasts) is with the trumpets. And the regulations of this commandment were already explained in the Sifrei, in Rosh Hashanah and in Taanit. And likewise are we commanded to blow with trumpets at times of need and of distress, when we yell out in front of God, may He be exalted. And that is His saying, "When you are at war in your land against an aggressor who attacks you, etc." (Numbers 10:9). (See Parashat Behaalotecha; Mishneh Torah, Fasts 1.)
Hebrew: Sefer HaMitzvot, Warsaw 1883 (public domain). English: Sefaria Edition, trans. Rabbi Francis Nataf, 2021 (CC0). Via Sefaria; translator’s footnotes omitted.
Literary form: a ritual instruction
Applicability
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- Requires a standing Temple
Classical halakhic consequences
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Imposed by a court
No court-imposed penalty is recorded.
At the hands of Heaven
No divinely-imposed consequence is recorded.
Ritual remedy
No ritual remedy is recorded.
How the streams of Judaism treat this commandment
The streams of Judaism read the same commandment differently — an ongoing plurality, not a ranking. Each position below is reported as the catalog records it; none is presented as the correct one.
- Orthodox Binding, with modification
- Conservative Kept as an ethical principle
- Reform Not binding
- Reconstructionist Not binding
- Karaite Not binding
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
How later traditions read or reworked this commandment, each attributed to its own voice. The catalog’s own classification of each reception is shown as it records it, never adopted as GEBible’s.
Qumran (the Dead Sea Scrolls)
- 1QM (War Scroll) cols. II-IX The catalog describes this reception as: expanded
Josephus
- Ant. 3.291-294 The catalog describes this reception as: paraphrase
The New Testament
- 1 Corinthians 14:8 The catalog describes this reception as: figurative analogy trumpet as image of intelligible signaling/proclamation
- Revelation 8:2-9:14 reinterpreted it eschatological trumpet sequence drawing on cultic/martial trumpet imagery
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
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This framework catalogues tensions; it records agreement in only one of its entries. The near-total tension rate is the shape of the instrument, not a finding.
No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.