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Connecting the Queens Jewish Community The Jewish month of Elul is a month of introspection. Jews all over the world begin preparing for...
One of the daily activities in the Mishkan was taking out the ashes. The Chovos HaL’vavos explains that Hashem commanded Aharon to do this action each day “to lower himself and rid himself of the arrogance in his heart.”
“But as much as they would afflict it, so it would increase and so it would burst forth; and they were disgusted because of the Children of Israel.”
– Sh’mos 1:12
“You shall count for yourselves – from the morrow of the rest day (Pesach), from the day when you bring the omer (a measure of volume) of the waving – seven weeks, they shall be complete. Until the morrow of the seventh week you shall count, fifty days…” (Leviticus 23:15-16)
Waking up to beach views in Mexico, shopping at The Shuk in Jerusalem, the clean mountain air of Northern Italy… Some of my vacations, I’ll remember forever.
And Hashem said to Avram, “Go for yourself from your land, from your birth place, and from your father’s house to the land that I will show you.”
– B’reishis 12:1
“Yisro, the minister of Midian, the father-in-law of Moshe, heard all that G-d did to Moshe and to Yisrael, His people – that Hashem took Yisrael out of Egypt.”
