Sounds of Shabbat

Last night the shabbat horn went at about 7pm.  The horn blows for about 3 minutes and signals that it is time to light the candles -- shabbos has begun. The Haaretz newspaper website has an interactive page where you can hover over your city in Israel, or other cities worldwide to find out when shabbat comes in and goes out.  It goes out tonight in Jerusalem at 820pm (after 3 stars have been seen, usually about an hour after sunset). The buses and stores will open up about an hour later.

I'm housesitting my friends' apartment in a neighbourhood up the hill from where I used to live. You can really hear the horn up here. Here's a little segment: