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AGENDA ELUL 5771

Elul, the month preceding Rosh HaShanah enjoys a mystique that approximates a balance between joyous anticipation of a new year full of potential and blessing, a year of health and prosperity and the dread that one may not be worthy to live another year.



Historically, the first of Elul 2448 saw Moshe Our Teacher A’H ascended Mount Sinai for the third time. The first time was to receive the first set of Tablets which were destroyed forty days latter on 17 Tamuz in reaction to the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 26, 2011 at 5:46am — No Comments

G-D IS WATCHING

The status of the Land of Israel in the Jewish psyche goes back to G-D’s promises to the Patriarchs and to Moshe (see Shemot 6:4). Therefore the basis for a national affinity to this particular place. Yet in Parshat Ekev the Torah reveals the land’s character, what makes it special.



Devarim 11:11-12 “ The land, which you are going over to possess, is a land of hills and valleys, and drinks water from the rain of the skies. A land which the Lord your God cares for; the eyes of the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 19, 2011 at 5:54am — No Comments

WHO WE ARE, REALLY

The popular perception is to view the Shabbat following the intensity of the Three Weeks culminating in mourning over the Temple’s destruction and the reality of the nation’s exile as a time to take comfort and relax. However in less than three weeks begins the Month of Elul, the time of reflection and resolution so that the New Year to come can begin better. A time for each individual to graduate to deeper levels of faith and observance.



The Sidra of VeEtchanan is replete with… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 12, 2011 at 6:52am — No Comments

SEE CLEARLY SEE G-D

Rabbi Yehudah Chaim Cohen ZT’L ZY’A in Yehudah Ya’aleh observes that the first letters of the first six words in the Hebrew text of Lamentations (Eicha) spell the words Aivah Ra’ah, bad hostility. The Rabbi points out the significance that even though Eicha was written against the First Temple’s destruction, the First Temple being destroyed because the nation worshipped idols, behaved immorally and engaged in bloodshed, the three sins one must be prepared to experience martyrdom. However, the… Continue

Added by Bernard S. Antin on August 5, 2011 at 6:48am — No Comments

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