{"id":49024,"date":"2020-08-31T18:30:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/?p=49024"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T18:30:03","slug":"weekly-tefilah-focus-on-elul-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/holidays\/weekly-tefilah-focus-on-elul-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Tefilah Focus on Elul &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HaRav Aharon Kotler <em>zt\u201dl<\/em>\u00a0highlighted in a very strong way the extraordinary opportunity and gift of the month of Elul, which Hashem has granted to us.\u00a0 He wrote:<\/p>\n<p><span dir=\"RTL\">\u05d5\u05e0\u05e4\u05ea\u05d7\u05d9\u05dd \u05e9\u05e2\u05e8\u05d9 \u05d7\u05e1\u05d3 \u05d5\u05e8\u05d7\u05de\u05d9\u05dd, \u05d5\u05d0\u05e4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05dc\u05d4\u05e9\u05d9\u05d2 \u05d1\u05d9\u05df \u05d1\u05ea\u05e9\u05d5\u05d1\u05d4 \u05d5\u05d1\u05d9\u05df \u05d1\u05ea\u05d5\u05e8\u05d4 \u05d5\u05e2\u05d1\u05d5\u05d3\u05d4 \u05d1\u05de\u05e2\u05d8 \u05e2\u05de\u05dc \u05de\u05d4 \u05e9\u05e6\u05e8\u05d9\u05da \u05e2\u05de\u05dc \u05e8\u05d1 \u05d1\u05d6\u05de\u05df \u05d0\u05d7\u05e8<\/span><br \/>\n\u2026and the gates of\u00a0<em>chesed<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>rachamim<\/em>\u00a0are opened; 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