Chelek 34, Re'eh-Elul - Mrs. Freidy Yanover
Jul 31, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Chelek 34, Re'eh-Elul - Mrs. Freidy Yanover
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Jul 31, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Chelek 34, Re'eh-Elul - Mrs. Freidy Yanover
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And there's a source in the teaching of Maimonides in the laws of repentance in regards to the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Aseret Yemei Teshuva, where Maimonides says, even though the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a call to awaken and repair one's ways, every person must see him or herself as half meritorious and half otherwise, and that doing one good mitzvah will conclude in bringing him and the entire world to the side of merit and will bring the world healing and saving.
And to this end, the nation of Israel, Maimonides says, increases in charity and in good deeds and is busy with mitzvahs from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur more than the rest of the year.
And there is the custom to rise in the night for these ten days and to pray in the synagogues to express ourselves in prayer pleadingly and convincingly and do so until daybreak.
And since Maimonides highlights this custom to increase one's giving of charity from the general instruction to increase in good deeds and mitzvah observance and places it before everything else, it's proof that even though in these days we need to strengthen all aspects of Torah and mitzvahs, first and foremost we must seek to increase in charity.
And from here we learn a similar behavior for the month of Elul because it is like the ten days of repentance in several ways.
One is that the focus of Elul is that it's a month of repentance as are the ten days of teshuva.
And a second is that like these ten days are a preparation for the signing of the year that comes on Yom Kippur, why our sages explain we increase in charity in these days because the judgment for the average person is left pending to be determined on Yom Kippur so that if he did teshuva he is signed for life for that year.
So too all of the month of Elul is a preparation for the opening of judgment that begins on Rosh Hashanah.
And thirdly, more than that, all forty days from Rosh Chodesh Elul until after Yom Kippur are an ongoing reality of a single experience of repentance.
And there's a source in the teaching of Maimonides in the laws of repentance in regards to the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, Aseret Yemei Teshuva, where Maimonides says, even though the sound of the shofar on Rosh Hashanah is a call to awaken and repair one's ways, every person must see him or herself as half meritorious and half otherwise, and that doing one good mitzvah will conclude in bringing him and the entire world to the side of merit and will bring the world healing and saving.
And to this end, the nation of Israel, Maimonides says, increases in charity and in good deeds and is busy with mitzvahs from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur more than the rest of the year.
And there is the custom to rise in the night for these ten days and to pray in the synagogues to express ourselves in prayer pleadingly and convincingly and do so until daybreak.
And since Maimonides highlights this custom to increase one's giving of charity from the general instruction to increase in good deeds and mitzvah observance and places it before everything else, it's proof that even though in these days we need to strengthen all aspects of Torah and mitzvahs, first and foremost we must seek to increase in charity.
And from here we learn a similar behavior for the month of Elul because it is like the ten days of repentance in several ways.
One is that the focus of Elul is that it's a month of repentance as are the ten days of teshuva.
And a second is that like these ten days are a preparation for the signing of the year that comes on Yom Kippur, why our sages explain we increase in charity in these days because the judgment for the average person is left pending to be determined on Yom Kippur so that if he did teshuva he is signed for life for that year.
So too all of the month of Elul is a preparation for the opening of judgment that begins on Rosh Hashanah.
And thirdly, more than that, all forty days from Rosh Chodesh Elul until after Yom Kippur are an ongoing reality of a single experience of repentance.
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