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dvarim           We do not celebrate the month of Elul, for there are those who

                                                                                                                  resist repentance.

                                                                                                                  How can we greet the King amidst the mud and muck of sin? We must
                                                                                                                  clean ourselves appropriately through teshuvah.

                                                                                                                  We stand before Hashem on Rosh Hashanah like sheep being counted by
                                                                                                                  their shepherd. Whoever is not worthy will be put to great shame.
                                                                                                                  One should never repent on Yom Kippur with the intent of returning to
                                                                                                                  sin when the day is out.
                                                                                                                  Sins between man and his fellow man, created in the Divine image,
                                                                                                                  obviate the path to complete forgiveness.





                   “You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were
                   a sojourner in his land”
                                                                                               12
                                                                (Devarim 23:8)
                                                                                                                  “When you will go out to war against your
                                                                                                                  enemies, and Hashem, your G-d, will deliver

                                                                                                                  him into your hand, and you will capture his
 The Yetzer Hara is the modern-day Amalek, who waits in ambush at our                                             captivity. And you will see among its captivity
 doorstep. The way to eradicate him is by Torah study and mitzvah                                                 a woman who is beautiful of form, and you
 performance. We can divide the word  into  . It is possible to                                                   will desire her, you may take her to yourself
 (slaughter) the Yetzer Hara by means of the Torah, which is
 interpreted in  (seventy) ways.                                                                                  for a wife”
                                                                                                                                                           (Devarim 21:10-11)
 “And the living should take it to heart.” The word  (and the living)
 is numerically equivalent to twenty-nine. Adding one for the word itself
 makes thirty, the gematria of the letter  , an allusion to  (study).
 Torah study affords one life. As long as a person lives, he should immerse
 himself in Torah, through which he gains the tools to conquer Amalek,
 the embodiment of the Yetzer Hara.















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