Machshava:

Chinuch,  Elul,  Rosh Hashana,  Yamim Noraim 

Collections: R' Goldin Parenting from the Parsha

Description

For close to two months- beginning on Rosh Chodesh Elul and continuing through the Yamim Noraim and Succot- we add the paragraph of L’dovid Hashem Ori (Tehillim 27) to our tefillot each morning and evening. Rav Tzadok notes that there appears to be a redundancy in one of the pesukim of the perek. Dovid Hamelech turns to Hashem and declares, “Achat Sho’alti me’eit Hashem, Ota Avakeish…”, “One thing I ask from Hashem, that I request…” and he then continue to request for G-d’s presence to be felt in his life. Why the repetition? The words “ota avakeish”, “that I request” seem completely superfluous?!