The Month of Elul
Don't Wait for Rosh Hashanah - Take the Elul Challenge
Stop making excuses, take full accountability, and make the hard calls that will transform your life and nation.
Wikiyeshiva - The Month of Elul
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Lessons TESHUVA IS THE ANSWER
The month of Elul serves as a vital time for self-reflection and personal accountability to prepare for true repentance.
Questions How we can use Elul?
How we can utilize the time and not tumble in to the holy days like every year?
Lessons Everything You Need to Know About Selichot
When do we start, how do we manage fatigue, and what are we truly praying for? Read the halachic guide to Selichot and enter the High Holidays fully prepared.
articles The Laws of Elul and Selichot
An explanation of the meaning and the laws of the month of Elul and Slichot.
Questions Side blown Shofar
Lessons Blowing the Shofar, Together
We have the custom to blow the shofar throughout the month of Elul as a preparation for Rosh HaShanah. The shofar comes to wake us up but also to gather us together in order that we can return to God together.
Lessons Laws of the Month of Elul
Though G_d accepts the repentance of his children all year long, the forty days between Rosh Chodesh (New Month) Elul and Yom Kippur are more suited for repentance than any other period of the year, for they are days of Divine mercy and favor.
Lessons If Not Now: The Power Of Prayer
Lessons Preparing to Return
Lessons Converging Customs