<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's an interesting halacha that one does not blow the Shofar during Elul if he did
not daven with a minyan. (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">S'U Tzitz Eliezer 12:48</span>).<div><br></div><div>Why?</div><div><br></div><div>The reason we hear the shofar during Elul is to wake us up to rectifying the wrongs we have done towards others and living a righteous life.</div><div>It's easy to be a tzaddik when we're davening alone or when we're learning by ourselves.</div><div>However, the biggest challenge is to live a righteous life in the context of a minyan and showing ahavas chinam to the minyan and not to just</div><div>one or two others.</div><div><br></div><div>The wake up call therefore makes sense in the context of a minyan, and hopefully by the time the yomim noraim arrive, we'll connect the echo of </div><div>the Elul shofar sounds to the majestic sounds of the Yomim Noraim.</div><div><br></div><div>Kol tuv.</div><div><br></div><div>ri</div><div>
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