In this time, Jews often blow the shofar, a trumpet fashioned from a ram’s horn, to end morning services and recite Psalm 27 (“The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?”) ...

In ancient days, when a watchman on Israel’s walls detected an approaching enemy, the first thing he did was grab his shofar.

It is marked at the start by the blowing of the shofar (a ram’s horn trumpet) and signalling the start of the ten days of penitence, prayer and introspection culminating in Yom Kippur.