JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. Here is this week’s video for Rosh Chodesh Elul
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After being told this Moshol since I was 2 years old I still never heard the Nimshal in my entire life. It’s beautiful to say ‘Hold his hand’, but what in the world does that even mean?!
JLI does a great job, could they just translate the Moshol to a Nimshal Plz!!
how
this maamer is possibly the most famous maamer of the alter rebbe
the nimshal is why elul is not yomtov
It’s a realization that G-d desires your connection with Him unconditionally. If we realize that this is His desire, and we think about it for a moment, this will inspire us to desire to connect with Him. We are not doing anything differently. Just with a different narrative. During the year the story is “I need/want to connect with G-d, I am commanded to do so through Torah, Tefillah, Mitzvos.” During Elul the story is that G-d wants my connection – He’s waiting for me in the field and smiling radiantly. If that’s the story, then what would you do,… Read more »
Seems to me that we’re meant to be taking advantage of the proximity of the King and making our requests for the coming year etc. This is by extra Tehillim and Torah, Tzedoko etc