Show IN HEBREW RITUAL wood instrument dates back to the th very earliest Earlle ct youth of the th world hebrew historians with a special e rye up or par to the racial history are very proud of 0 their they say it Is the oldest form of 0 wood wind instrument ment in the hie world that it was wag used in the original mosaic ritual it is g the one musical instrument says dr cyrus adler which has bag been preserved unbrokenly in that ritual there Is even a theory voiced by professor that the antedates the oe people of israel lie he says gaya it probably goes back to pre prehistoric lils times and another anve aiga or nr points out that it obviously came ilist from a folk solely on tile the gro groling xing of bocci this indent rains horn instrument was earll earI lest cht used for the signals of alarm which weri so necessarily harily common in primitive society the israelites then adapted it to their religious services and with such fitting effert that it lias has persisted uniquely since the beginning but the talmud indicates th that at even among tile the II hebrews brews the dotur ans wn also into a horn for giving alarms fundamentally these alarms would be incidental to war afterward though tile the instrument wa was blown in other seasons of danger or distress it warned of famine or of a plague of locusts locuito or ol of drought and it was wa employed in the public service of ion the children of israel had other horns which were used for musical find and ritualistic purposes but this Is the only one which ha has survived |