Likutei Sichos – Vol 19 p 158 ff. ‘Winds of Elul’.This short Sicha explores a poetic quote of the Previous Rebbe regarding Elul in Lubavitch; It begins with explaining how all Yamim Tovim really start with Pesach, as everything we do He motivates, which is the theme of Pesach- ‘from the top down’.the Rebbe then...

Elul The idea that in the very beginning there is the end shows itself in the idea that ‘the blowing for practice’ on the first day of Rosh Chodesh Elul is connected to Yom Kippur!