[Avodah] God Provides a Place to Flee...

[Micha Berger]

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-mi
On Mon, August 27, 2007 11:04 pm, Richard Wolpoe wrote:
: It is actually brought down in the Kitzur shulchan Aruch
: Kesiva vaChasima Tova
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: On 8/26/07, R Wolberg <cantorwolberg at cox.net> wrote:
:>
:>  One of the lesser known roshei teivos of Elul appears in Shmos
:> 21:13 "*E*
:> ena  *L*'yado *V*'samti *L*'cho."  Even though a person has sinned,
:> God
:> provides for him a place to flee. Elul is that place; and teshuva,
:> which
:> has the same root and is related to "Shaiv" (sit, rest), Yeshiva,
:> and
:> Shabbos.
:>
:> When we flee to where we're going, we must take time to sit and rest
:> and
:> then learn (as in the Yeshiva) and finally our Shabbos will come
:> once we've
:> "returned."
:>
:>
:>
:> Richard Wolberg
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