
The Month of Elul – Accounting of the Soul | Yam HaTorah | Parashas Shoftim | Rabbi Yosef Goldstein
The teachers of ethics expounded allegorically: A person must appoint for himself judges and officers in all his “gates,” that is, in the mouth, the eyes, and the ears, to guard himself from sin. At night, one should always make a cheshbon ha’nefesh [accounting of the soul], judging whether he behaved himself properly.







