FRIDAY
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Your complete guide to this week’s halachos & minhagim
Parshas Nitzavim, 27 Elul, 5785
29 Elul, Erev Rosh Hashanah, 5785
Although we don’t bentch the new month, we still recite the entire Tehillim before Shacharis.
Say Av Harachamim.
Participate in a farbrengen.
After Minchah, we read the fifth and sixth chapters of Pirkei Avos. See note in last week’s Luach regarding whether Kol Yisroel and Rabbi Chananya ben Akashya should be said before and after both chapters, or just once (before the fifth chapter and after the sixth chapter).
Motzoei Shabbos
After Shemoneh Esrei of Maariv, do not say Viyhi Noam and Ve’atah Kadosh.
Today marks the birth of the Tzemach Tzedek in the year 5549 (1789). The Rebbe encouraged utilizing this day to learn some of the Tzemach Tzedek’s teachings and follow his ways. To learn more about the Tzemach Tzedek, visit chabad.org/3268073.
Say Tachanun during selichos, but not during Shacharis and Minchah.
SHABBOS
MONDAY
Those planning on blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah (e.g., for mivtzo’im) should review the necessary halachos beforehand. (See below, “Hosafos,” for a selection of these halachos.)
Those who will be serving as chazzan on Rosh Hashanah and/or Yom Kippur should review the davening, and especially the piyutim, to ensure they will know at least their simple meaning.
The Baal Shem Tov said:
On the last Shabbos of Elul, Hashem Himself blesses the new month, and this gives us the ability to bentch the other eleven months of the year.
- Hayom Yom, 25 Elul
