“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
To hear the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
יוֹם תְּרוּעָה יִהְיֶה לָכֶם
In Maimonides’ words
How Maimonides defines this commandment in his Sefer HaMitzvot — his own words, shown as a primary source.
היא שצונו לשמוע קול שופר ביום ראשון מתשרי והוא אמרו יתעלה יום תרועה יהיה לכם. וכבר התבארו דיני מצוה זו במסכת ראש השנה. ואין הנשים חייבות בה. (פינחס, זמנים הלכות שופר וסוכה ולולב פ"א):
And that is that He commanded us to listen to the sound of the shofar on the first day of Tishrei. And that is His, may He be exalted, saying, "it shall be a day of blowing for you" (Numbers 29:1). And the laws of this commandment have already been explained in Tractate Rosh Hashanah. (See Parashat Pinchas; Mishneh Torah, Shofar, Sukkah and Lulav 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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- Recorded as practiced today
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
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- Orthodox Binding
- Conservative Binding
- Reform As the catalog records it: observed as custom
- Reconstructionist Binding
- Karaite Binding, with modification
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
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Rabbinic aggadah
- Genesis Rabbah 56:9 expanded it homiletically
- Pesiqta deRav Kahana 23 expanded it homiletically
Philo of Alexandria
- De Specialibus Legibus 2.188-192 read it allegorically Philo reads the feast of trumpets as commemorating the Sinai trumpet and as symbolizing cosmic order and war/peace, not pure abstract allegory
The New Testament
- 1 Corinthians 15:52 reinterpreted it the 'last trumpet' (eschatological salpinx) as resurrection signal
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16 reinterpreted it trumpet of God at the parousia, drawing on the theophanic shofar/trumpet tradition
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
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No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.