Month of Elul Acronyms: How we prepare for the High Holy Days.

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

[Music] 30 days before the high holy days we enter into the month of el the month of chuva the month of Reckoning when we analyze the past year and we take account for all those good things that we did and we try to double them and to make them better and to fix the and to make them better and to fix the mistakes of the past year this month of elol is known as the month of Reckoning and the month of chuva in the constellation of the zodiac the month of el corresponds with the Virgo the sign of the Virgo what is this mean number one is the Virgo had no previous love and therefore her first love is now which is which is God and number two is this is her first relationship and that's why it's exciting and new and so the month of el is a month of rebirth when we have the opportunity to become like a Virgo and start all over from the beginning furthermore the month of el has five basic acronyms which which allude to the five basic avidus the five basic missions and basic avidus the five basic missions and responsibilities of this month we start with the three basic pillars upon which the world stands which is the study of Torah prayer and charity and all of these three are found in the word El because number one El is an acronym for it says in the Torah that if

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1. 0:02[Music] 30 days before the high holy days we enter into the month of el the…
2. 3:08the entire purpose of why God created the night was for the study of Torah so…
3. 6:18the B tells us that every day of the month of el we should add three…
4. 9:25which is G ultimate Redemption and these five levels also allude to the five different types…
5. 12:31animal Soul or overpowers the animal soul and unites the animal Soul together with God so…
6. 15:38latter two which is repentance and Redemption and this is expressed in the fact that the…
7. 18:47s if I only gave 5% I should start giving 6% if I gave already 10%…
8. 21:56every day we get stronger and stronger we get more into it more passionate about it…
9. 25:05ability to enhance our Torah study to better our prayer to increase our charity and to…
10. 28:13age of about 70 years old said to her tell me something how come the last…

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