Relying on ‘zos!’

My dad once told me the following vort that he heard; i think it’s originally from the Kotzker Rav… For a good month and ten days from rosh chodesh elul ..

Written by d fine

Elul – mixtures of ahava and yirah

[heard from Rav Osher Weiss]…We know that Elul is supposed to be days of introspection and fear. The shofar is supposed to spark off feelings of re-alligning ..

Written by D Fine

A Whole New World

Rosh Hashana is a day of judgement. It is the first of a series of ten days, culminating in Yom Kippur. During these next ten days we each pass before Hashem, as we say in the prayers ..

Written by Tal Segal

Elul – Good Morning Sir. This is Your Wake Up Call.

We have mentioned many times in this weekly email that as Jews, we live with the times. Meaning, that our festivals are not just commemorations of historic events, ..

Written by Tal Segal

Ani Ledodi Vedodi Li

      Ani Ledodi Vedodi Li This phrase represents the yimei ratzon which are prevalent during Elul. I had a personal experience of this the other ..

Written by Moshe

Ellul

I was thinking of a dvar Torah about Ellul and found myself looking at Dovid Hamelech’s Psalm that we customarily say between Rosh Chodesh Ellul and Shemini Atzeres. ..

Written by Moshe Kormornick

detail counts

We recite the Ontune tokef prayer in the Mussaf Repitition of the Amidah on the first day. Something most remarkable reads as follows : וקול דממה דקה ..

Written by Phillip Robinson

What would you choose??

Wealth, Ruach HaKodesh, or Children Who Are Tzaddikim? In the Shaar HaKavonos of the Arizal it says that when the Chazzan lingers on the word “Ayei” ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

Crying On Rosh Hashana

The Arizal said whoever does not cry during the Yomim Noraim his Neshama is not good or complete. It is brought down in the name of the Shela that someone whose ..

Written by Benjamin A Rose

Don’t Worry about all the trivial things

One Friday afternoon while the Arizal was surrounded by his talmidim he asked the group if they were ready fly to Yerushalayim to prepare for the Geula. Everyone ..

Written by B Rose