MAGA Sen. Doug Mastriano announced his candidacy for Gov of PA today. They opened the proceedings the same way they opened J6 in DC, by blowing the Shofar, signaling that this political battle will also be spiritual. pic.twitter.com/Rrt6QXURPB
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 8, 2022
A man wearing a Talit (Jewish prayer shawl) blew a Shofar on Saturday (January) to herald the official start of State Senator Doug Mastriano’s campaign for Governor of Pennsylvania. Blowing of the Shofar is an important ritual in which Jews partake, during the High Holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Forward.com wrote –
The use of shofars by Christians at right-wing political events has become something of a trend in recent years and this was not the first time Mastriano has attended a right-wing event where a shofar was blown.
In December 2020, he attended a series of “Jericho Marches” in Washington, D.C. where Trump’s supporters prayed for him to remain president. Jack Jenkins, a reporter for Religion News Service, told the New Yorker that the event was intended to mimic the Biblical story in which the walls of Jericho fell. “They blew on shofars believing they could literally overturn the election results,” Jenkins said.
And Mastriano was in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021 when Trump’s supporters rallied and later stormed the Capitol, with some of them sounding shofars.
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