Examples of using Elul in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Especially during Elul.
Elul: The King is in the Field: Where are You?
It says about the month of Elul that we come to the Creator, and the Creator assists us.
The first denomination of the third series of the New Shekel, the NIS 50 banknote,was put into circulation beginning in September 2014(Elul 5774).
We are now in Elul, the month of repentance and mercy.
Similarly, Sivan is the month of Wisdom,Shevat is the month of Growth and Fruitfulness, Elul is the month of Compassion, and so on.
For many generations, Elul has been a time for personal change and renewal.
The Western Wall Heritage Foundation is also preparingfor the traditional note removal that will take place on Tuesday, 24 Elul(September 24) at 10:30am.
Yet, the purpose of the month of Elul is to correct this confusion, and it is for this reason we blow the Shofar.
As we can see from the mystery of the 9th of Av, the resotoration of Israel in jubilee years,and the economic collapses on Elul 29- the wipeout day, God has a calendar.
One Elul, I wrote her a letter in which I asked forgiveness for having allowed our friendship to disintegrate.
Already at the beginning of the month of Elul we would get up early and go to the synagogue to read"Selichot" and pray.
Elul is the chance for the Jewish people to achieve our spiritual gold medal- through the discipline and hard work that begins with thoughtful reflection.
Now they're throwing us to another company," Ben Elul says,"when no one knows whether they take the machines away and go after two years.
And the stunning defeat for a world champion runner, Kenyan born Israeli Lonah Chemtai Salpeter,is a powerful reminder of a profound idea central to Elul, the month preceding Rosh Hashanah.
During Elul and the High Holy Days, we are given the gift of teshuva, of return- to ourselves, to our loved ones and to God.
They spent those 40 days changing their inner selves,and ever since then, Elul is the ideal time for personal improvement and renewal.
Let's be sure to use the month of Elul well, to let it draw us to living authentically, and to feel greater openness, love and forgiveness.
When Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Liberman and Miri Regev paint us participants of the flotilla as violent, anti-Semitic extremists, I will remind myself that it is my Jewish values- no less than my personal conscience- which drove me to join the flotilla, especially now,at the end of the month of Elul.
Forty days before Yom Kippur, on the first of Elul, we begin blowing the shofar every morning and reciting Psalm 27 after the morning and afternoon prayers.
We can turn Elul into a month of Tikkun by watching out for the“Takanat,” the needs and vulnerabilities, even those that seem insignificant, of others.
The first letters of each of the wordsof“Ani L'Dodi V'Dodi Li” spell out Elul, in Hebrew, the month before the high holidays, a time of repentance and self examination.
May the month Elul be blessed and successful to all the people of Israel and to all the children of Israel who returned to schools and educational institutions blessing and success and have a blessed and successful and protected year!
May we all be inspired to fully utilize this Elul, to embark on a journey of genuine teshuva, and continue the process of becoming our true and higher selves.
So this Elul, the plan is that from 9 to 10 you will limit your conversations, maneuver the talk away from malicious gossip, or put a sticky note out for yourself to keep you on track-any idea that works to better help you achieve your aim.
Sometimes I will hear one of the tunes we used to sing over and over again,before Minchah during Elul or on Friday nights in Rav Yehoshua's house, and I am back with those dazzling, energetic, kind women, who showed me that there are so many ways to approach Torah, and friendship, and life.”.
I will tell you that you now have is Elul, more than any other past Elul, to work on yourself, put all worldly silly things aside, and only get close to Hashem.
Dr. Ruth Calderon was the founder of the'Elul' Beit Midrash which shedirected together with Motti Brauer since 1989.'Elul' was one of the first pluralistic Batei Midrash in the secular sector.
So this week, take the 30-day Elul challenge and pick one mitzvah, one positive action that you know you can stick to for 30 days, and do it every day- no matter what.