Elul: Tisha B'Av to Rosh Hashanah, Getting Closer to Hashem

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

with you some thoughts for the month of ello that's uh coming rapidly we're holding at the end of the summer and for many of us the very last thing on our minds is uh hodashello and rosh hashanah and yom kippur maybe it's the very last thing on our minds we're still thinking how we could sort of take advantage of the beautiful weather and the summer but as they say ready or not here we come tomorrow night already is rosh chodesh ella and i'm sure we're all familiar with the fact that the month of elul is alluded to in the past and sharehashirim in the song of songs in the words ani the dodi which literally means i am for my beloved and my beloved is for me a reference to rebina shalom meaning if i am for god if i put my best foot forward if i make my best effort to try to come close to the revina shallow the evangelion will respond in kind and accept our efforts and come close to us ani begins with an aleph begins with alamed vedoi di begins with above lee begins with alameda it spells the month of ello and this is not just some kind of catchy remiss some catchy hint but it's brought down in many early sources it's brought down in the abu drahama is one of the early we shine him the mishna brewer brings down this ram as this is a well-known documented established ramez alluding to the month of ello and so interestingly if you take the final letter of these four words ani

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