Elul: Don’t Be Dead (Ep. 197)

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

Hi, this is David Elmsley and welcome to the Rabbi Elmsley show. And whether you're watching with our friends over at Turning Tide wherever you watch or listen to your podcast, I believe we're back up on all of our regular platforms and of course we have the option for the WhatsApp group. If you want to get it through the WhatsApp, the number is on the screen. So we're happy to reach you. Happy that you're taking out time to spend with us. As always. And uh What can I tell you? It's almost Rosh Chodesh Elul. Yeah? Could be when you're watching this already it'll be Rosh Chodesh Elul. And that's it. What is the message of Rosh Chodesh Elul? So you know, you start blowing shofar. I was actually about to care during COVID. So uh I guess we can use anybody. This shofar was actually my father's shofar, alav hashalom. Um interesting story. He uh Uh he had grown up in a from home but he had no Jewish education and he um he went out to work during the depression cuz there was no food. And uh he fell out. And uh you know, used to work on Shabbos. He wasn't really with the program so much even though in his in his heart he he still believed everything and he was with everything. But um during um during the Yom Kippur War, 1973, he said uh there were Jewish boys dying and I have to do something. And so every morning he would get up and put on tallis and tefillin and daven shacharis. Starting in 1973 until the end of his life and uh

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