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Why is this Karaite Writing about the Shofar on “Rosh Hashana”?

Look at those blue fringes

A beautiful book for the feasts of the Seventh Month, produced by the Karaite community in Israel.

I really wanted to hate this song. And I really wanted to be frustrated at the Israeli Karaites who published it. These are not ideal qualities; I know. But once I took a deep breath, I realized that the song is absolutely beautiful; the Karaite sage who wrote about a shofar in a song about Yom Teruah (“Rosh Hashanah”) is a great poet; and I am a better person because of it.

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