Find yourself with an overwhelming urge to repent in Midtown yesterday? That was because you heard in the distance the siren call of the shofar, bubeleh.

Some of America's top shofar-blowers converged on Herald Square at noon for the finals of Great Shofar Blast-Off. Because we're sure you're dying to know: Kalman Feinberg of Teaneck, N.J., was picked as the winner — by that master of Jewish liturgical music, Paul Shaffer of The Late Show.

If ever this statement was true, it's now: Only in New York, kids.

Looking for the whole megillah? Pics of the crowd and the winner are after the jump.

The competitors:

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And the winner is:

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