The Hall of Shofars

EXHIBITION: At biblical fauna museum, a blow-by-blow of all things shofar, and more horns to toot. Beit Shemesh Biblical Museum of Natural History director Natan Slifkin’s collection features everything from rams to kudus to African buffalo and even a unicorn (Jessica Steinberg).

Spoiler alert: Neither the unicorn horn nor the horns of the mythical jackalope can be used as a shofar.

For more on Rabbi Natan Slifkin, the "Zoo Rabbi," and his Biblical Museum of Natural History, see here and follow the links. For more on his book, The Torah Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdom, see here (cf. here).

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