- The shofar should preferably be a ram’s horn. The horns of other kosher domestic animals are also acceptable except for those of a bull or ox.
- Non-Yemenites should not use shofars made from the horns of Kudus if there is a ram’s horn shofar available.
- The shofar must be longer than a Tefach (handbreadth) so that it is visible on both sides of the ba’al tokei'a’s hand when he is blowing it.
- A cracked shofar may be disqualified. One should not use it unless he ascertains its precise Halachic status.
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