16 Aug Shoftim/Elul – Preparing for Battle with the Teruah Blast
This week’s parsha, Parshas Shoftim, is generally the first parsha read in the month of Elul. In the parsha, we read: כִּי-תֵצֵא לַמִּלְחָמָה עַל-אֹיְבֶךָ, וְרָאִיתָ סוּס וָרֶכֶב עַם רַב מִמְּךָ--לֹא תִירָא, מֵהֶם - When you go out to war against your enemy, and you see...