Jose, "are not all cornets called horn?
for it is said, 'When they shall make a long (blast) with the ram's
horn.' "(303)

3. The cornet of the New Year was a straight horn of a wild goat; and its
mouthpiece was plated with gold. And the two trumpets(304) were stationed
on each side. The cornet prolonged its note when the trumpets ceased,
because the obligation of the day was for the cornet.

4. On fast days (there were) crooked rams' horns; and their mouthpieces
were plated with silver. And the two trumpets were stationed in the midst.
The cornet ceased, and the trumpets prolonged their notes, because the
obligation of the day was for the trumpets.

5. The jubilee is like the New Year for the sounding and the blessings. R.
Judah says, "on the New Year they sounded rams' horns; and on the jubilee
wild goats' horns."

6. A cornet, which was rent and cemented, is disallowed. One cemented from
fragments of cornets is disallowed. "It had a hole, which was closed?" "If
it hinder the sound, it is disallowed; but if not, it is allowed."

7. "If one sound the cornet within a pit, a cistern, or in an earthenware
vessel, and one (outside) hears the sound of the cornet?" "He is
free."(305) "But if he hear the echo of the sound?" "He is not free." And
so, if one be passing behind a synagogue, or his house adjoin the
synagogue, and he hear the sound of the cornet, or the reading of the roll
of Esther, he is legally free, provided he heard it with due attention;
but if not, he is not legally free. Although one hears as well as another,
yet one hears with hearty intention, and another without hearty intention.

8. "And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand that Israel
prevailed,"(306) etc. And how could the hands of Moses make the battle, or
crush the battle? But it is written to tell thee that while Israel looked
to Heaven for aid, and subjected their hearts to their heavenly Father,
they prevailed; and when they did not do so, they were defeated. Like as
He says, "Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole, and it shall
come to pass that everyone that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall
live."(307) And how could the serpent kill, or make alive? But when the
Israelites looked to Heaven for aid, and subjected their hearts to their
heavenly Father, they were healed; and when they did not do so, they
perished. One deaf and dumb, or an idiot, or a child, cannot, as proxies,
free others from their obligations. Thi