The Rosh Chodesh letter has been sponsored by Shai Rosalimsky in the zechus of everything Yeshivat Mevaseret has done for Shai along with his friends For only 18 dollars you can sponsor a shiur, a Q&A, a Dvar Torah or an event. Your small contributions go a long way towards helping us continue to do the great work we are doing at Nitzotzos. To sponsor please email us at Nitzotzos@gmail.com Dear Nitzotzos Community, A gutten Rosh Chodesh Elul! We are now beginning a period of forty days beginning with Rosh Chodesh and culminating in Yom Kippur. Every morning in davening we will blow the shofar which the Rambam writes in Hilchos Teshuva (3:4) calls on us to "Wake up you sleepy ones from your sleep and you who slumber, arise. Inspect your deeds, repent, remember your Creator. Those who forget the truth in the vanities of time and throughout the entire year, devote their energies to vanity and emptiness which will not benefit or save: Look to your souls. Improve your ways and your deeds and let every one of you abandon his evil path and thoughts." For forty days Moshe Rabbeinu davened to Hashem that Klal Yisrael should be forgiven for the cheit haeigel (which caused the breaking of the first luchos. On Rosh Chodesh Elul Moshe Rabbeinu ascended Har Sinai to receive the second set of Luchos which were ultimately given on Yom Kippur signaling that Klal Yisrael had been fully forgiven. The Tur writes (Orach Chaim 581) in the name of the Pirkei D’Rebbi Eliezer (46): "A shofar was soun
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