Sermon for Slichot with Commentary and Important Notes - Handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv - Jerusalem ...

Sermon for Slichot with Commentary and Important Notes - Handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv - Jerusalem, the 1950's
Sermon handwritten by Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv on the way we currently say Slichot before the High Holidays. Jerusalem, circa 1950.
"Everyone feels the great difference of the Israeli man, when the days of mercy and forgiveness arrive … one generation passes away come and another generation comes, and everyone approaches the New Year as one about to forgive …" In a footnote, he wrote: "but now, the situation of the Israeli nation or the individual has changed for the better , like it is told about a woman who did not cry during her Rosh Ha'Shana prayers. When the women asked her what has changed she answered that there was no sense in crying: "if the Blessed Lord gives us a good year, all the better, but if, Heaven forbid, He doesn't , I will go to my sister in Africa…""
He goes on to explain the essence of the Slichot: "…the Slichot are a symbol of how long will you lie down, get up to work the Creator, and not necessarily to say the Slichot and then return to sleep, and no one knows they had been said and those who do not know the purpose of the Slichot take advantage of the invention for why should they get up before sunrise, only immediately after Mellave Malka… they enter the synagogue to hear the Joy.
20.5x15.5 cm. A page written on both its sides in small, orderly handwriting.
Condition: Very Good. Folding marks and slight tears with no damage to text.