Tonight begins the new crescent moon for the new month of Elul. Since this month has two days of Rosh Hodesh, the first Rosh Hodesh is on the last day of the previous month (Av).
It was on Rosh Hodesh Elul, that Moses went up Mount Sinai for the second time and came back down forty days later, with the second set of tablets of the Ten Commandments. That day corresponds to Yom Kippur!
What happens after morning prayers every weekday starting at the beginning of the month of Elul? The Shofar is blown!
WAKE UP! WAKE UP!, the shofar implores us. Get ready for the Day of Atonement. How do you prepare yourself to ask G-d to inscribe you in the Book of Life for another year?
Shabbat Shalom,
Marlene
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