Jewish residents gathered in the Boston Public Garden to herald the New Year with a blowing of the shofar Tuesday evening.

“The Jewish people have been blowing the shofar, a simple hollowed-out ram’s horn, for thousands of years in celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year,” said the Central Synagogue of Boston. “Intrinsically, the shofar is not just a sound. It is a cry. A prayer. A soul-awakening, personal, meditative and rousing experience.”

Rosh Hashanah kicked off Monday and will last through Wednesday, marking the religion’s New Year. The Central Synagogue of Boston welcomed adults and children to witness the blowing of the shofar near the Public Garden’s George Washington Statue Tuesday and again Wednesday from 6 to 6:15 p.m.

The sound of the shofar is a “essential precep

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