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Shofar So Great carries the ancient call of the shofar to congregations, conferences, and gatherings where people are ready to hear it.

The shofar is the oldest instrument in continuous sacred use. Its sound is not music. It is a summons — to attention, to repentance, to unity, to peace. We bring that sound from Jerusalem to communities around the world, because the call was never meant to stay in one place.

The name comes from the promise: that the sound would be so great it reaches from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth.

Robert is a shofar sounder. That is the simplest and most honest way to say it.

He has sounded the shofar in the Judean wilderness outside Jerusalem, at conferences and gatherings across the United States, and in communities large and small where the ancient call is welcome. He carries a ram's horn shofar and a Torah mantle bearing the Star of David, and he walks with a staff — not as costume, but as the instruments of a practice he has given his life to.

Robert does not seek attention for himself. He sounds the call so others can hear it. If you meet him, he will likely talk about the shofar before he talks about himself. That is who he is.

Robert arrives with the shofar, the Torah mantle, and his staff. The sounding itself is brief — a few minutes — but the experience is not.

He speaks about the significance of the shofar in Scripture and in tradition: the call to repentance, the announcement of God's presence, the sound that carried across the desert and was heard at Sinai. Then he sounds it. The shofar is not a gentle instrument. The sound fills the room — raw, unpolished, alive. People describe it as something they feel in their chest before they hear it in their ears.

Every sounding is different because every gathering is different. Robert reads the room — a small Bible study receives a different presence than a conference of thousands. The shofar sounds the same in a living room as it does in an arena. What changes is the conversation afterward.

Congregations, conferences, retreats, memorials, celebrations, and community events — wherever people are ready to hear the ancient sound.

Robert has sounded the shofar at events ranging from intimate home gatherings to large conferences. If your community would benefit from hearing the call, we would be glad to talk about how to make it happen.

Use the form above or reach out directly. Tell us the date, the type of gathering, the approximate size, and the location. Robert will respond personally — there is no booking agent, no assistant, no form letter. You are talking to the man who will show up with the shofar.

In 1972, Robert's father Jack Weinger painted a work called The Great Shofar — a man sounding the horn over the hills of Jerusalem. That painting became the seed of everything you see on this site: the colors (navy, gold, parchment), the imagery, the name.

Decades later, that painting was cast as a bronze sculpture, now in Jerusalem. The journey — from a father's painting to a son's calling to a sculpture in the holy city — is the story of Shofar So Great in three objects. A painting became a calling. The calling became bronze. The sound continues.