# 857 Is the Left Right?
Is There a difference between the shofar of the right side of the head of the ram or the left side?
Afarkasta
De’anya
(116) quotes Maharil that the intention of the verse (Yishaya 27: 13)
”In
that
day
that the
great shofar
shall be blown,”
is that Hashem will blow with the right side shofar which is bigger
than the left one. Therefore there could be a preference to the right
side shofar since it hints and alludes to that desired meaning. (See
also Nitey Gavriel – Rosh Hashana 44: 1)
Horav
Shlomo Miller Shlit’a pointed out to the Mishna at the end of Kinnim
(3: 5) Rav Yehoshua says while the korban is alive it possesses one
sound, but when it is dead its sound is sevenfold… its two horns
are made into two trumpets (or shofros – Bartenura et. al.) It
would seem that they were used indistinctly.
Rabbi
Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit”a.
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: August 14, 2015