Fwd: Getting Ready for Elul, Remembering Rav Kook and the History of L'Dovid Hashem Ori

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Subject: Getting Ready for Elul, Remembering Rav Kook and the History of L'Dovid Hashem Ori
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To view this email as a web page, click here. AUGUST 11-17 • AV 28-ELUL 4 The newsletter this week has been sponsored by Yaakov and Margaret Gorlin l'ilui nishmos Harav Moshe Zev ben Harav Shmuel Mordechai HaLevy and Malka bas Alter Tzvi  (Dr. Morris and Mrs. Marilyn Gorlin) Z"L This learning on the site this week was sponsored: by Alan and Fran Broder to commemorate the yahrzeit of their great-grandmother, Frieda Greenspon, a'h, Frieda bas Binyamin by the Gorlin family l'ilui nishmas Harav Moshe Zev ben Harav Shmuel Mordechai HaLevy, Dr. Morris Gorlin z"l and l'ilui nishmas Malka bas Alter Tzvi, Mrs. Marilyn Gorlin a"h by Marilyn and Eliot Lauer and family in loving memory of Dr. Edward L. Steinberg, Yehuda Leib ben Yitzchak Gedalia, on his yahrtzeit by Eleanor and Gerald Frenkel and Joany and Henry Silberman in memory of Ephraim ben Yoel Roer Sponsor a Day of Learning on YUTorah Elul is Here The summer is almost over and the season of Teshuva is about to begin. Where do we start on our road to return? How do we make real change in our lives? Start Learning Wake up this Elul! What is the message of blowing shofar every day in Elul? What are the guidelines of when and how to blow, and what happens if you dont hear it in shul? Start Learning L'Dovid Hashem Ori What's the source and origin of the custom to recite this perek every day in Elul? What does it teach us about what we should be focusing on? Start Learning Remembering Rav Kook Mark the yahrtzeit of Rav Kook this week by learning his Torah and getting an appreciation of his world-view. Start Learning MINI-SERIES FOR ELUL 5786 RECENTLY FEATURED SHIURIM Rabbi Dr. Howard Apfel Does Jewish Tradition Recognize an Ethic Independent of Halacha? Rabbi Aryeh Cohen Altruism Fuels An Elul Journey To Hashem Mrs. Michal Horowitz The Avodah of Elul: Partnering With Hashem to Create Oneself Mrs. Emma Katz Chassidus on Teshuva: Rav Yitzchak Meir Morgenstern's Introduction to Elul Rabbi Yosef Zvi Rimon Seeing the Geula Unfold in front of Us Rabbi Hershel Schachter Maximizing Our Summer Daf Yomi |  Parshat Shoftim |  Support YUTorah The Marcos and Adina Katz YUTorah Website is a project of Yeshiva University. Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) 515 West 185th St. New York, NY 10033 To continue receiving RIETS emails, please subscribe to the RIETS option in the Manage My Subscription form