Today: 

Monday September 5, 2005   = 1st  of Elul 5765
 

Elul = “…A special season known as 'Teshuvah' which in Hebrew means "to return or
repent", begins on the first day of the month of Elul and continues 40 days, ending with Yom Kippur…” http://www.linkjesus.com/feasts6.htm
 
http://www.ou.org/chagim/elul/default.htm

The Shofar is a ram's horn, which is blown throughout the month of Elul and on Rosh HaShanah. Its sound is meant to arouse us to do Teshuvah.

The Shofar also serves as a reminder of the ram which was "caught by its horns in the bush." (Bereshit {Genesis} 22, 12)

http://www.ou.org/chagim/elul/dfshofar.htm

http://www.bj.org/kavannah/kavanah_elul.html

http://www.cybertime.net/~ajgood/elul.html
 

Today’s Headlines: 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.impact/index.html

„Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 5:25 a.m

Attention now turning to the dead

Corpse recovery teams go house to house in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Body recovery teams Monday will press on with the grim task of going house to house to find more victims of the flooding wrought by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, where the mayor said thousands had died…..”