Getting ready for the new year - During the month of Elul - Rabbi Alon Anava

What’s said in this shiur

The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Alon Anava’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

We're on a very special day today, Rosh Chodesh Elul. The beginning of the week, very very special day. What are we going to do today is we'll talk a little bit about Rosh Chodesh Elul and the month of Elul and Rosh Hashanah, how to prepare to Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Then we'll take make a short break and Hashem after that we'll talk about shalom bayit and marriage and and all these important things. Hashem. So first we want to dedicate this shiur to the birthdays of Rivka bat Sarah and Mazal bat Sarah. So Hashem should have shnat hatzlacha, successful year with health and happiness and nachat, parnassah, everything should be in an abundance. And we're not going to start mentioning names cuz that will take the whole shiur, but whoever needs refuah should have refuah, whoever needs shalom bayit needs Hashem should have shalom bayit, parnassah all the good things. Hashem after the shiur we'll do maybe some dedications. But since we're not we're short on time, we'll get straight to the point. So today is a very special day, it's Rosh Chodesh Elul. We have 40 days now before Yom Kippur. Today was the first time that we blow the shofar after repeat shacharit. And this is the day where we start getting ready for the new year. The entire year we live on autopilot. We

Jump to a moment

1. 0:18We're on a very special day today, Rosh Chodesh Elul. The beginning of the week, very…
2. 6:41bad things that we did. Now there's going to be a whole trial. So I want…
3. 12:59you mean to do teshuvah? What do I need to do? Okay, I got the point…
4. 19:23few minutes out." That's stealing, basically. An employee that works for somebody and the contract or…
5. 25:45the effort. If a person is as lazy as he was the entire year, he's not…
6. 32:16The reality is that we unfortunately, that's human nature, we don't move or do anything if…
7. 38:33Torah and you say the Torah applies to me exactly how it applies to you exactly…
8. 44:53why would I give you the reward? It's like this game they have a show a…
9. 51:07good, why doesn't he program us to just be good? That would That would beat the…
10. 57:25No, I'm not measuring it. Whatever the Torah tells me to do, I didn't tell I…

Every second of this shiur plays inside Lehallel — a filtered YouTube library where each video was reviewed against one written standard before it could appear. No ads, no comments, no autoplay into anything unapproved.