Elul - What should I focus on during the month of Elul? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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

[Music] we are weeks before Rosh Hashanah and we want to talk a little bit about how I'm preparing myself to host Shanna and you know the two-minute preparation that I just said this is basically the foundation of everything now we're waiting for the day some people you tell me Moshe Chanel they start trembling some people start saying oh you know another month of Sukkot a few days ago I was in a lecture I said in a few weeks is austere Shanna so one moment said Oh yo-yoing okay I don't know if she was saying away because she has to start preparing for the dinners or because she doesn't want to know that she doesn't know how to start doing her job but the reality is that one can look at the fact that Washington is around the corner is something very serious this is Yama Dean this is Judgment Day this is the day that we're standing in front of the collage boho and he's looking at each and every one of us and deciding how my year is going to be and the prayer that we say we mentioned who's gonna live who's gonna die I was gonna be rich who's gonna become poor who's gonna get married who's gonna get divorced everything is decided on that day so this is kind of a a serious day not kind of but it's a very serious day that one should take that day in a very heavy heart and a strong mind this is not another day that we're just going into the show in out you have to understand that everyone every human being Jews and non-jews every animal everything that exists in this world is being judged

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