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- Month of mercy and of forgiveness.
- Moses' ascent to obtain the second set of tablets on Mount Sinai, the first of Ellul and the tenth of Tishri.
- Selihot.
- Psalm 27.
- Blowing the shofar at the end of the morning service thoughout the month.
- According to Rabbi Eliezer, the world was created on the twenty-fifth of Ellul, the Sixth Day (on which man was created) being Rosh Hashana (The first of Tishri). See Talmud Rosh Hashana 10b.
- The normal blessing for the coming month, said on the last shabbat of each month, is not said on the last Shabbat of Ellul for Tishri.
- The first of Ellul is the New Year for animal thithes (See leviticus 27:32 and Mishnah Rosh Hashana 1:1).
The first of Ellul is also the New Year for tithes of vegetables: vegetables reaped before that date are not thithed together with those reaped after that date.
- On the twenty-fifth of Ellul, Nehemiah and his helpers completed the building of the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 6:15).
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