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Vayelech 5755Volume 13 · Issue 4
Enflaming the Embers
The sequence of days that the Creator gave to us, which begins on Rosh Chodesh Elul and end on Yom Kippur, concern His appeasement over the Sin of the Golden Calf and the giving of the Second Tablets.
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Ki Savo 5761Volume 22 · Issue 3
Prayers of Forgiveness
According to Ashkenazic custom, the special prayers of forgiveness, Selichos, are to begin after the Sabbath. According to Sephardic custom, they began at the beginning of Elul.
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Ki Seitzei 5754Volume 17 · Issue 2
Head of the Year
This was said on Rosh Chodesh Elul. Moshe Rabbeinu carved the Tablets and presented them before the Creator to write upon them the words that were on the First Tablets that he had shattered. And forty days later, on Yom Kippur, Moshe Rabbeinu descended with the Tablets
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Ki Savo 5766Volume 3 · Issue 3
Year of My Redemption
From the beginning of Elul, we need to be on course for the Acceptance of the Torah forty days later on Yom Kippur, but the actual Acceptance of the Torah begins on the Sabbath that we read the words of the covenant. Then, we renew
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Ki Seitzei 5775Volume 12 · Issue 2
Honest Expression
The Tur (Orach Chayim 581) begins the laws of Rosh Hashanah, “It was taught in Pirkei D’Rebbi Eliezer (chapter 46), “On Rosh Chodesh Elul, the Holy Blessed One said to Moshe (Devarim 10:1), “Ascend to Me to the Mountain,” for that was when he ascended to receive the Second Tablets. The shofar was sounded throughout the encampment, “Moshe ascended to the Mountain,” so they would not stray again after idolatry. The Holy Blessed
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Ki Seitzei 5756Volume 18 · Issue 2
The Focused Mind
The Tur, Baal HaMaor, Rabbeinu Asher, and other earlier commentators consider this also the objective of the shofar that is sounded throughout the month of Elul. Among the other reasons, it comes to awaken Israel to repentance, as it says, “If the shofar is sounded in the city, shall the people not be anxious,” and to confound Satan (Tur, Orach Chaim chapter 581). And it is exceedingly peculiar
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Ki Seitzei 5757Volume 19 · Issue 2
The Shell of a Pomegranate
He cites from the sages, in the name of Rabbi Eliezer, that the world was created on the twenty-fifth of Elul. “Accordingly, when the Talmud (Rosh Hashanah 8a) says in his name that the world was created in Tishri, it means the end of creation. The first man, with whom creation ended, was created on the sixth day, the first of Tishri
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Nitzavim 5762Volume 23 · Issue 4
Mercy Without Limit
But this was only at the end, on Yom Kippur. Moshe Rabbeinu had ascended the Mountain on Rosh Chodesh Elul to receive the Torah, but another forty days were needed until there was forgiveness.
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Devarim 5767Volume 3 · Issue 39
Path to Repentance
that during six months, messengers would go forth throughout the Diaspora to announce when the High Court established the beginning of the month. They would go forth in Nisan because of Passover, in Av because of the fast, in Elul because of Rosh Hashanah, and so on. The Talmud asks, “Let them also go forth in Tammuz and Teves,” meaning because of the fasts that occur during those months.
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Bamidbar 5768Volume 4 · Issue 32
The Counting and the Year
creation was on the twenty-fifth of Adar and the creation of man was in Nisan, and according to the opinion that the world was created in Tishri, the beginning of creation was on the twenty-fifth of Elul (Vayikra Rabbah 29:1) and the creation of man was in Tishri.
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Rosh Hashanah 5769Volume 6 · Issue 3
Greatness of Man
…“Seek God when He is found.” For it was taught, “On the twenty-fifth of Elul, the world was created.” Accordingly, the teaching of the Talmud, “R’ Eliezer says that the world was created in Tishri,” is…
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Mishpatim-Shekalim 5775Volume 11 · Issue 17
Integral Dimension
Just as we must prepare a month in advance, from the beginning of Elul, for the day of man’s creation in Tishri, so also, we must prepare a month in advance for the day of man’s creation in Nisan. Of this, the Mishnah states (Shekalim 1:1), “On the first of Adar
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Vayelech 5752Volume 15 · Issue 5
Beyond the Protocols of Mercy
…Creation began six days before the first of Tishri, on the twenty-fifth of Elul, and the sixth day when man was created coincides with Rosh Hashanah. Thus, man is judged on the day of his creation. But Rabbi Yehoshua…
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Ki Savo 5753Volume 16 · Issue 3
Implosion of Evil
In essence, this is what happened—and still happens—on Rosh Hashanah. When Moshe Rabbeinu ascended on high for the last set of forty days, from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, it was yet unclear whether the Creator was appeased to give the Second Tablets. Rabbeinu Nissim (Rosh Hashanah 16a) states that the appeasement began only on Rosh Hashanah and it ended on Yom Kippur, when the Creator
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Mattos-Masei 5754Volume 16 · Issue 35
A Mother’s Comfort
When Rosh Chodesh Elul coincides with the Sabbath, and it invariably occurs during the seven weeks after the Ninth of Av, the Rama rules that nonetheless, the Haphtarah of Rosh Chodesh is read (Orach Chaim 425:1). The reasoning is that this Haphtarah also
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Terumah 5756Volume 17 · Issue 21
Gradational Development
In the Jewish calendar, the year begins and ends twice. As all know, Rosh Hashanah is the beginning of the year. Hence, the previous month, Elul, is the end of the year. Of this, it says (Devarim 11:12; cf. Rosh Hashanah 8a), “From the beginning of the year to the end of the year.”
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Vayeishev 5757Volume 18 · Issue 12
In Praise and Thanks
context means the day when man was created, which is actually the sixth day of creation. Thus, the first day, when God said, “Let there be light” (Bereshis 1:3), was five days earlier, on the twenty-fifth of Elul.
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Miketz Chanukah 5760Volume 20 · Issue 14
The Horn of the Ox
Plainly, he was created on Rosh Hashanah, the first of Tishri. In the opinion that the world was created in Tishri, creation began on the 25th of Elul, and the first of Tishri was the sixth day of creation, the day of man’s creation.
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Terumah 5762Volume 22 · Issue 20
Pivoted Coercion
The world’s creation on the first of Nisan means it began on the 25th of Adar—just as the world’s creation on the first of Tishri means it began on the 25th of Elul.
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Nitzavim 5761Volume 22 · Issue 4
Exalted Exclusively
The Rann adds that although Moshe Rabbeinu had ascended Mount Sinai on Rosh Chodesh Elul to plead forgiveness over the Sin of the Golden Calf, God’s appeasement and willingness only began on Rosh Hashanah, concluding on Yom Kippur. Then, the Second Tablets were given, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy were revealed in actuality
