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Come to the house of the dear owner of the house, Rabbi Ilan the righteous, may God protect you, bless you, make you happy, and do you good with God's help. We are on a very special day today, the We are on a very special day today, the first day of the month of Elul. The month of Elul is a vast, terrible, and overwhelming month. Every moment of it and every minute of it is of enormous significance. It has enormous power and is truly capable of changing a person's life from one end to the other. One of our greatest early rabbis, who lived about 800 years ago, was called the Maril. He was a holy of holies, an angel of God, and one of the greatest halachic arbiters of the Ashkenazim. Most of their customs and most of their halachic arbiters are taken from the teachings of the Ma'arid, whom the Ramah, who is the main arbiter of the Sephardim, relies on in most rulings and in most of the Sephardim, relies on in most rulings and in most matters. He writes something that can illustrate to us and show us what the virtue and power of this month is in the greatest and most powerful way. We know that there is a very great mitzvah in the Torah to add dance to the holy. There is a time for mundane and a time for sacred. We are commanded to take the time of the Holy and expand it into the time of the secular. For example, Saturday. Shabbat begins at 7 o'clock. There is a mitzvah from the Torah to bring Shabbat forward a little, to welcome Shabbat one minute before Sheva. Usually, this is
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