Colombus Dispatch
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann blows a shofar during morning service at the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in New Albany.
When Joseph Kaltmann blows a ram’s horn called a shofar, the trumpetlike sound is booming, piercing, just “really loud,” according to his son, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of New Albany, Ohio. The vigor with which the 84-year-old man blows is inspired by the sounds he heard as a teen lying half-dead in a World War II Nazi concentration camp in Halberstadt, Germany.
Shofar: The Sound of Freedom
Colombus Dispatch
Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann blows a shofar during morning service at the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center in New Albany.
When Joseph Kaltmann blows a ram’s horn called a shofar, the trumpetlike sound is booming, piercing, just “really loud,” according to his son, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann of New Albany, Ohio. The vigor with which the 84-year-old man blows is inspired by the sounds he heard as a teen lying half-dead in a World War II Nazi concentration camp in Halberstadt, Germany.
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