One Minute Daily Torah Thought - Rabbi Moshe Levin

Send us a textWho Do You Work For? Who Do you love? Who do you belong to? Who are you anyway?Good Morning! The word Elul has four letters that form the beginning of five sentences in the Torah, sentences about 1) Prayer 2) Torah study 3) Kindness 4) Teshuva or Returning to G-d and 5) Geula ; Freedom. Each of these sentences highlights the focus and energy of this month. On the surface these five components work together as follows: In Elul you are empowered to upgrade your  Torah study your prayers and your acts of kindness. If you have failed something in the past you can return to G-d and correct it, and through this effort you bring redemption and the coming of Moshiach. But the truth is that there's a deeper relationship between four and five and one two and three. Think about the acronym "I am to my beloved and my beloved is to me," the acronym of Elul. What does I am to my beloved mean? It means three things. I accept the sovereignty of my beloved and I must do the service of 1,2,& 3