Elul: Wake Up and Check Your Mezuzot (and Your Souls)

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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.

But um it's a very important time for every Yid. It's the time that Moshe Rabbeinu went up to Har Sinai the third time to be mekabel the Luchos Shniyos. And these are Yemei Rachamim, Yemei Ratzon. And the Sefer Mateh Efraim, we know Rav Efraim Zalman Margolies, who was a contemporary of the Chasam Sofer, um one of the great Acharonim, he wrote a sefer a sefer halacha from going all the way from the Me'el Elul to Rosh Hashanah, to Rosh Hashanah, Kippurim, to Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos. And this is the preeminent work on this time of the year. Mishnah Berurah quotes it kaseder. The Mateh Efraim writes, "Kvar beyarnu ki haChodesh Elul hu me'utad l'teshuva. We've already explained that the month of Elul is destined for teshuva. HaYere'im dvar Hashem, those who fear Hashem, yeish lahem l'fashpeish b'ma'asav, need to investigate their ways. V'yashiv mikodem sudasai. One should do teshuva before he eats. Lest you don't make it through the meal. V'koidem shinasai, before you go to sleep. V'yachshiv im nafshai, you need to think limtzo avoinos, to try to find whatever sins you could locate l'hischareit, to regret ul'hizdados alav, and to say vidui, v'shav v'raf'ei. And try to repair it. V'yoysef omes b'kiam amitsos, you need to strengthen yourself in the performance of mitzvahs. And he singles out one specific mitzvah. He says v'ye zariz b'yoysef b'chaydesh azeh b'kidush levana. You should be very careful this month in kidush levana. Because even though all mitzvahs you need to be careful on sh'mitzvah averas because it's a mitzvah that if you you miss it, you blew it. So in general during the month of Elul, it's a month of introspection and

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1. 0:31But um it's a very important time for every Yid. It's the time that Moshe Rabbeinu…
2. 3:04their m'zuzahs. It's minag Yisrael to check t'fillin and m'zuzahs. Now, halachically m'zuzahs you check twice…
3. 5:37words viyasuru, shlach lecha govrin vialelun. In Aramaic, the word for spy is vialelun. Elul. In…
4. 8:14referring to, or where in the writings of Reb Chaim Vital this could be found, I…
5. 11:19b'hevel." We are foolish the whole year in emptiness, v'reik and nothing, ash lo yoyil, that…
6. 13:55When was the last time we did that when we entered a room and we encountered…
7. 16:31specifically emphasized. Nowhere does it say, you know, during chodesh Elul you should make sure that…
8. 19:33of the Tekiah Shofar, which is "Uru Yesheinim Meishinaschem." Okay. Now, I I want to share…
9. 22:06The two klayos. What are the klayos? Two kidneys. Kidneys. Two kidneys. Marah. You know what…
10. 24:39in the Swaram of um of Gedar Yishar, he often elaborates and expounds on the meaning…

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