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Behar-Bechukosai 5767Volume 3 · Issue 30
Shavuos: Day of Judgment
…ay.” The First Day of Creation was actually on the twenty-fifth of Elul (Vayikra Rabbah 29:1) and man’s creation was on the Sixth Day, but since man is the focus of creation (cf. Bereshis Rabbah 8:5),…
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5766Volume 3 · Issue 4
Power of One
In other words, the first of Tishri is the day man was created; the First Day of creation was six days earlier, on the 25th of Elul. Still, we call Rosh Hashanah the First Day, because man was the focus of all creation, as it says (Bereshis 1:31), “The Lord saw all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good,” which the sages (Bereshis
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Ki Savo 5767Volume 4 · Issue 3
The Cry of the Shofar
The intent of this discussion is to clarify further the subject of the shofar, which includes the shofar of Elul and the shofar of Rosh Hashanah, and by inference, the shofar of the Giving of the Torah.
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5767Volume 4 · Issue 4
Amongst My People I Dwell
After the Jewish People had committed the Sin of the Golden Calf, the Creator said, “Let Me be, that My anger may flare against them that I may annihilate them (Shemos 32:10).” On Rosh Chodesh Elul, the first part of the decree, “Let Me be,” was rescinded, and Moshe Rabbeinu was allowed to ascend on High to appease the Creator, to pray (cf. Rashi to Shemos 32:10). Yet, the second part of the decree, “That
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VaYikra 5774Volume 10 · Issue 26
Soul of the Shekel
since before his creation there was no one to whom creation could be revealed. Man was created on the Sixth Day of creation; the work of the beginning commenced six days earlier, on the twenty-fifth of either Elul or Adar.
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Ki Savo 5774Volume 11 · Issue 3
The Longing of Israel
ended on Yom Kippur. Rabbeinu Nissim states this of the appeasement for the Sin of the Golden Calf (Rosh Hashanah 16a, or 3a in the folios of the Rif, s.v. BeRosh). Moshe Rabbeinu had prayed from Rosh Chodesh Elul until the Creator was appeased and gave the Torah, the Second Tablets. Rabbeinu Nissim writes that the beginning of the appeasement was on Rosh Hashanah.
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5774Volume 11 · Issue 4
New Year New Life
Each year on Rosh Hashanah God recreates man. This is what happened on the first of Tishri in year one—or more precisely in year two. Creation began on the twenty-fifth of Elul, which was in a different year; the first of Tishri was already the second year of creation. On the first of Tishri of the second year, man was created. Ever since then and to this very day, man is created
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Lech Lecha 5748Volume 13 · Issue 7
Venture into the Unknown
The passage begins (Pirkei D’Rebbi Eliezer chapter 8), “On the twenty-eighth of Elul, the sun and moon were created. The calendar of years and months, days and nights, hours and periods, seasons and cycles and intercalations, stood before the Holy Blessed One, and He intercalated the years.
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Ki Savo 5749Volume 14 · Issue 2
Unfettered Transformation
The earlier commentators explain that the beginning of creation was six days earlier, on the twenty-fifth of Elul, but Rosh Hashanah, the first of Tishri, was the day when man was created (Rabbeinu Nissim to Rosh Hashanah 16a).
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Naso 5750Volume 14 · Issue 30
Sheath of Light
The subject of Rosh Hashanah is the creation of man. Creation began on the twenty-fifth of Elul, and the sixth day of creation when man was created, coincides with the first of Tishri, Rosh Hashanah. Of this, we say in our Rosh Hashanah prayers, “This day is the beginning of Your works, commemorating the first day” (Rosh
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Nitzavim-Vayelech 5753Volume 16 · Issue 4
Cast into the Depths of the Sea
Musaf Prayers, “This day is the beginning of Your works, the commemoration of the First Day, when it is decreed for Israel as judgment by the Lord of Yaakov.” Creation began on the twenty-fifth of Elul (Vayikra Rabbah 29:1), and the sixth day of creation, when man was created, was the first of Tishri, the beginning of Your works. And this recurs yearly.
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Toldos 5756Volume 17 · Issue 10
Delivered from Hatred
that this prophecy is consolatory (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 425:1). As mentioned before, it is read as the Haphtarah for the Sabbath of Rosh Chodesh. And it may even replace the obligatory Haphtarah of consolation when Rosh Chodesh Elul coincides with the Sabbath. But it cannot replace the obligatory Haphtarah of punishment when Rosh Chodesh Av coincides with the Sabbath. Clearly, this prophecy consoles.
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Mishpatim 5757Volume 18 · Issue 20
Mysteries of the Universe
The sages tell us (Pirkei D’Rebbi Eliezer chapter 8), “On the twenty-eighth of Elul,” the fourth day of creation, “the sun and moon were created, along with the order time they establish—years and months, days and nights, hours and ends, seasons and cycles.”
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Rosh Hashanah 5761Volume 21 · Issue 5
Day of Remembrance
The sages explain that creation began on the twenty-fifth of Elul, and the sixth day was on the first of Tishri, Rosh Hashanah, when man was created (Vayikra Rabbah 29:1).
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Ki Savo 5762Volume 23 · Issue 3
Sinless Makeover
This is precisely why Moshe Rabbeinu ascended on high. His last forty days and nights began on Rosh Chodesh Elul and ended on Yom Kippur. Then, the Torah was given together with our pardon.
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Chukas 5766Volume 2 · Issue 32
Distinguished Nation
travel (ibid. v.16) was the banner of Reuven, which included the Tribes of Reuven, Shimon, and Gad, and they correspond to the last three of the summer months—Reuven corresponds to Tammuz, Shimon to Av, and Gad to Elul.
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Vayigash 5767Volume 3 · Issue 16
Light in the Darkness
twelve months corresponds to one of the twelve Tribes, and the Arizal and Vilna Gaon maintain that the order follows the encampment of the Tribes in the desert. Nisan, Iyar, Sivan correspond to the banner of Yehudah; Tammuz, Av, Elul to the banner of Reuven; Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev to the banner of Ephraim; and the last three months of the year that begins in Nisan, which are Teves, Shevat, Adar correspond to the banner of Dan.
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Vayakhel-Pekudei-HaChodesh 5769Volume 5 · Issue 22
The Great Luminaries
…” He maintains that the beginning of creation was on the twenty-fifth of Elul, and the creation of man, which occurred on the Sixth Day of creation, was on the first day of Tishri, Rosh Hashanah. In all that relates to…
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Ki Savo 5768Volume 5 · Issue 3
Rosh Hashanah: Strength of Infinite Joy
Sephardic custom is to begin reciting supplications, the prayers of the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy, from the beginning of Elul, when they were originally revealed. By their power, Moshe Rabbeinu had prayed throughout the entire forty days, until the Creator was appeased on Yom Kippur, giving to us the Second Tablets, which is the Torah that we currently have. Those
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Beshalach 5770Volume 6 · Issue 17
Living New
…states (Rosh Hashanah 2a), yet the same Mishnah designates the first of Elul as the new year for the tithes of animals, and no one celebrates that day as a festival—except that incidentally it happens to be…
