Speaking to You

The chassid Reb Foleh Kahn related: as I was sitting alone, I heard the Rebbe Rashab muttering to himself, "it's Elul in the world and time is just flying away."

Hearing these words, a shiver went down my spine. When I later shared this experience with my fellow chassidim, they all told me, "don't you understand? The Rebbe was speaking to you."

Elul is called the month of teshuva. It is a most auspicious time to make a spiritual accounting and to correct whatever needs to be corrected. For this reason, we sound the shofar to awaken us to do teshuva.

As the Rebbe teaches, though we are assured that during this month Hashem greets us lovingly, nevertheless it is incumbent upon us to reveal the thirteen attributes of mercy (a high spiritual level) through davening, learning and teshuva.

reprinted from The Weekly Farbrengen by Merkaz Anash, on-line at TheWeeklyFarbrengen.com