In 2007, Time magazine asserted that the Bible “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written.” With phrases like “an eye for an eye” and “thou ...

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In fact, there are four different new years mentioned in the Hebrew Bible alone: A new year for ... on the first day of the late summer month of Elul; and the one we currently observe most ...

In the late sunsets of Elul, the Hebrew month that falls in August, the streets around all of those synagogues echo with the sound of the shofar, the hollowed horn of a ram that Jews blow ahead of ...

The tomb of Pinto, a venerated rabbinical judge who died in 1845, has for decades attracted many Jewish pilgrims on and around the 26 th of Elul, the date of his death on the Jewish calendar.