It is customary to recite additional Tehillim during Elul and the Ten Days of Repentance. (Likkutei Moharan II, 73. According to the mesorah of Chabad/Lubavitch, this also was the custom of the Baal Shem Tov, who would recite three chapters a day until Yom Kippur, when he would finish the rest of Tehillim; cf. Sefer Minhagim?Chabad, Elul, p. 54 ff. citing Kovetz Mikhtavim leTehillim, p. 207. Matteh Ephraim 581:8 cites the widespread custom of reciting ten chapters per day beginning on Rosh Chodesh Elul, so that one completes Sefer Tehillim twice before Rosh Hashanah, and one more time during the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah;
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With the approach of the yahrzeit of the great Chassidic leader Rabbi Elimelech on 21 Adar, thousands of Jews throughout the world were making arrangements for travel to his tomb in the European city of Lizhensk. Among them were Jews in the Israeli town of Elad who were participating in a charity raffle whose prizes were airplane tickets to Lizhensk.
When one of them learned that he was the lucky winner of such a ticket, he announced that he was giving the prize to his brother who was anxious to make the pilgrimage but could not afford to do so. The next week another drawing was held and once again our hero was one of the winners.
As both brothers joyously traveled to pray at the graveside of this great tzaddik they could reflect on the fact that the selflessness expressed by the first one was a fulfillment of Rabbi Elimelech's encouragement of such behavior in his famous "Little List" of guidance to be found in his monumental work "Noam Elimelech".
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