The sounding of the ram’s horn, or shofar, is also meant to elicit remembrance in the New Year ( Rosh Hashanah) rite. Building the Temple there invokes the binding of Isaac as source of merit: God is asked to remember Abraham’s faithfulness and thereby to show mercy to his children. Because 2 Chronicles 3:1 refers to Moriah as the mountain on which the Temple is built, the story further explains the site of the Temple of Jerusalem. Abraham here exemplifies obedience and Isaac embodies the martyr in Judaism. An angel stopped Abraham when he was about to slay his son and replaced Isaac with a ram this is the last of the 10 trials to which God subjected Abraham. Abraham bound his son Isaac on an altar at Moriah, as he had been instructed by God.
