The shofar is blown every morning from the first day of Elul until Rosh Hashanah (except on Shabbat).
Native name
אֱלוּל(Hebrew)
Calendar
Hebrew calendar
Month number
6
Number of days
29
Season
Summer (Northern Hemisphere)
Gregorian equivalent
August–September
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Elul (Hebrew: אֱלוּל, Standard ʾElūl, Tiberian ʾĔlūl) is the twelfth month of the civil year and the sixth month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar. It is a month of 29 days. Elul usually occurs in August–September on the Gregorian calendar.[1]
^"Rosh Chodesh Elul" ראש חודש אלול. Retrieved 1 September 2019.
Elul (Hebrew: אֱלוּל, Standard ʾElūl, Tiberian ʾĔlūl) is the twelfth month of the civil year and the sixth month of the religious year in the Hebrew...
Rafael "Rafi" Elul (Hebrew: רפאל "רפי" אלול, born 23 September 1957) is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the Labor...
Year, the first of Elul, the new year for animals, began the religious taxation period for tithing animals in Biblical times. Elul corresponds to the...
Jacques Ellul (/ɛˈluːl/; French: [ɛlyl]; January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, and professor. Noted as...
on 1 Elul—this being Rosh Chodesh Elul. The first zman runs for five and a half weeks; until the end of Yom Kippur on 10 Tishrei. The month of Elul, the...
end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars come in a variety of sizes and shapes...
dates: The 1st of Nisan is the new year for kings and festivals. The 1st of Elul is the new year for the cattle tithe... The 1st of Tishri is the new year...
the entire 40-day penitential period in the Jewish year from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur, traditionally taken to represent the forty days Moses spent...
and in the Sephardic tradition they begin immediately after Rosh Chodesh Elul. There is an old custom to fast all weekdays of the Ten Days of Repentance...
calendar c. 3750 BC – Disintegration of the Proto-Semitic language 25th of Elul, 21 September 3760 BC — Considered the first day of creation from formless...
walls of the upper city was completed on 7 Elul (in mid-August), and the troops forced their way in. By 8 Elul the whole city was in Roman hands—and in...
open to repentance during the period from the beginning of the month of Elul through the Ten Days of Repentance (including Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur)...
of months in the Hebrew calendar, specifically Shevat, Nisan, Tammuz and Elul. The original Babylonian months were actual lunar months, as the Hebrew months...
Our Heritage: The Jewish Year and Its Days of Significance. Vol. 3: Iyar-Elul. Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers. ISBN 978-0-87306-151-3. Scherman, Nosson...
custom among some Jews to study Tikunei haZohar especially in the month of Elul, and also during the Ten Days of Repentance, since according to the kabbalists...
Sabbath: fixed as the fourth Sabbath of the fifth month. Elul: awd amet (Year rotate) on 1, ṣomä lul (Elul fast) between 1–9, anākel astar'i (our atonement)...
being used today in the synagogue, and it is only used from Rosh Chodesh Elul through the end of Yom Kippur. The shofar is used by itself, without any...
Meditation Services Torah study Tzedakah Mitzvot In the Jewish calendar Month of Elul Selichot Rosh Hashanah Shofar Tashlikh Ten Days of Repentance Kapparot Mikveh...
their Egyptian allies against the Babylonians from Tammuz (July–August) to Elul (August–September) 609 BCE. On that basis, Josiah was killed in the month...
of the week by the Levites in the Temple in Jerusalem. From Rosh Chodesh Elul until Hoshanah Rabbah, Psalm 27 is recited twice daily following the morning...
repenting in preparation for and during the High Holy Days from Rosh Chodesh Elul to Yom Kippur.) A Naval air officer receives ashes from a military chaplain...
starting from Elul 3, 5683 / August 15, 1923 and which lasted for ten days. The proposal for the study of Daf Hayomi was made on Elul 7 or 9, 5683 (August...
to the entire penitential period, starting as early as the beginning of Elul, and (more rarely) ending as late as Shemini Atzeret. The term Three Pilgrimage...
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