While many people can make a sound with a shofar, the challenge is to make the sound meaningful. That is what Stewart Edelstein will try to do as he coaxes notes out of the exotic instrument at Rosh Hashanah services this week and Yom Kippur services in early October at his synagogue, B’Nai Israel in Bridgeport.
“I try to create a sound that will penetrate into the souls of the people in the congregation,” said Edelstein, chair of the Litigation Department at Cohen and Wolf in Bridgeport. “Once you hear it, you don’t forget it,” he said of the shofar, which he practices almost daily a month before the services begin.
