Elul – Virgo
The Month of Elul – Virgo
Rosh Hodesh Elul marks the beginning of a period of 40 days of forgiving and self examination that ends at the closing Prayer (Neila) on Yom Kippur. This time is attributed, according to the Biblical tradition, to the events around Mt. Sinai revelation. As we know, Moses broke the first tablets when he came down from Mt. Sinai and saw that the people are involved with The Sin of the Golden Calf. Later, Moses returns to the mountain for an additional period, starting on Rosh Hodesh Elul. Moses comes down, 40 days later, on Yom Kippur, holding the new tablets and bringing a message of atonement and forgiveness. Kabbalists say that these days have the unique quality of forgiveness, repentance and atonement since the six days of creation and that is why Mt. Sinai events occurred exactly at that time of the year.
What is the meaning of repentance?
The days of Elul are known as days of Teshuva (repentance), from the word LaShuv (לשוב to return (- returning to ourselves, our truth, our real inner connection. Rabbi Nachman from Breslov says that the Hebrew word Tikun (תיקון correction) has the same letters of Tinok (תינוק a baby). Meaning that a person, who corrects himself by removing separation and disconnection from his soul, returns to his initial state, like when he was a baby, sort of restarting all systems, and this is the purpose of these forty days – losing our suffering, pain and distorted self and returning to our real selves. This is the purpose of creation and the secret of the journey of the Month of Elul.
So what gives the Month of Elul – Virgo, this a cosmic great quality?
Rosh HaShanah – The New Year
According to the Zohar, the Hebrew New Year is a time, which the Universe returns to the day of its Creation; this, in order to give us an opportunity to ease the Tikun process. Once Rosh Hashanah enters/begins the power of life a person has is gone and he is, theoretically, dead. Fortunately, the life force of the New Year starts to enter at the same very moment and it starts to charge our souls with abundance for the year to come. The Creator gives us infinite abundance, since his essence is infinity. However, two many times, it seems that we barely got any luck!!! That happens because the feelings of pain, anger, selfishness, victim consciousness and misery that we possess, do not allow the flow of infinite bliss available that day from filling our souls. Luckily, even when we are connected to the wrong frequency, The Creator st