Rosh Chodesh Elul

Join us for Rosh Chodesh Elul minyan on Monday, September 1st at 9:00am.
Be a minyanaire!

Significance of the Month

The days of Elul are called the days of “Divine forgiveness and kindness”. This is embodied in the word Elul. It is written in the Song of Songs (6:3) Ani l’dod v’dodi li. (I am my beloved and my beloved is for me….)

The acrostic of the first letters of this phrase spells Elul. The last letters of the words of the phrase are all “Yud”. The numerical value of “Yud” is 10. 4×10=40, the number of days that Moses spent on Mt. Sinai when he revealed the second set of the Ten Commandments.

He went up on Rosh Chodesh Elul, as Hashem pardoned the people for the event of the Golden Calf. When he came down forty days later, it was Yom Kippur, the day of ultimate expression of the reunification of Hashem and His People. These days of Elul are therefore the beginning of a special time of favor and conciliation.