The Power of Elul - Rabbi Yisrael Feld

one of the main things to being successful in l is understanding the power that it actually has so often we get so accustomed to certain things that even though we know it's important we don't take advantage of all those moments the month of ell to young exactly 40 days and the number 40 shows up many times in jewish life in the torah we have 40 days we have 4 40 days and 49th that the mobile reigned we have 40 years the jewish people traveled through the desert we have 40 days and forty nights most of urbana went up to our sea night and in allah we have 40 saw a measurement of 40 sat to have a kosher mikvah what are all these 40s why that number of all numbers if you look at each and every one of those cases there's one common denominator that when this started before the 40 to afterwards the world was never the same the world was not the same pre and post mobile the jewish people were not the same before and after their time in the desert they left a slave and then it came in a free people with their own land when when uh moshe went up pre and post torah that's self-explanatory the world was never the same and when a person goes into the midfield and they come out to our they are never the same again and the idea is that's the same exact concept of what is happening through the month of l3 and kippur we can go in one way and come out the total opposite way come out a new person we need to take advantage of all 40 of these days this is why if you think about it chauffeur is the only mitzvah by the only holiday that we so so to say practice or perform before the actual holiday itself think about it simply you might build this up you don't go sit and eat in the sukkah and by by pesach you buy matzah there's actually a minnow to not imagine the whole month before however when it comes to chauffeur we are blowing soap for each and every day and ella why is that the only holiday beforehand that we actually do the mitzvah the previous month because the days of elo are part and parcel in the month of rosh hashanah in the day of rosh hashanah we must take advantage of the days of ello in order to make this truly rosh hashanah the beginning of the year the year will we become the person we want to become we should all be zohan to have amazingly powerful and inspiring and fulfilling days of l which will lead to a beautiful rosh hashanah and a good and yom kippur everyone have a fantastic day