Prop: Shofar

I grew up on nursery rhymes. How many of you did too? Today, I want to talk about this one. Say it with me:

“Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow,
The cow's in the corn;

But where is the boy
Who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack,
He's fast asleep.”

It’s said that in early times, shepherds often carried either horns or wooden flutes that they used to call in their sheep. The “voice” of the shepherd could be his actual physical voice, or it could be the voice of his horn or shofar. Either way, that “voice” would be unique to that shepherd.

Many times a number of shepherds would graze their sheep on the hills of Bethlehem, but when it was time to come in, each shepherd would call the sheep in his own “voice.”

When the horn would sound, …