In 1989, he was surprised to see a poem he had authored in 1941 printed in the Hamodia newspaper. It was about the month of ...

The Elul Experience to Bring Together Two of Jewish Music’s Most Iconic Voices for an Evening of Inspiration.

Elul, the month immediately preceding Tishrei, serves as the spiritual preparation for the Days of Awe – Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. It is the month of repentance, when an honest cheshbon hanefesh, ...

The month of Elul is approaching and with it the High Holidays when each of us has to take stock of ourselves. In order to properly take advantage of the days of Elul, it is necessary to make a halt ...

The Lev Elul Tour with Bracha Jaffe brings women together across North America—bringing powerful music, genuine connection, ...

The new month of Elul has begun, the month prior to beginning the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. Elul represents the spiritual alarm clock that reminds us of the period we are entering, the shift ...

Elul is the time to take make heshbon nefesh (accounting of the soul); a time for all of us, Adams and Eves, to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps and atone for our sins. The Torah teaches that “it’s ...

This coming week is the reading of Parshat Shoftim, the first parsha of the month of Elul. It is a month, of course, associated with teshuva (return) in preparation for the upcoming holidays. So it ...

Elul is the only month in the Jewish calendar where we are not busy with fasts or chagim and have the gift of a full month to contemplate and introspect. It’s an opportunity for inward reflection, ...

Abraham Joshua Heschel published The Earth Is the Lord’s in 1949. In his preface, he writes that, “The story about the life of the Jews in Eastern Europe which has come to an end in our days is what I ...

Elul: a month like no other on the Jewish calendar. For the committed Jew Elul is a place in time each year when we are blessed with the G-d-given opportunity to take advantage of the tools provided ...