Note 101 — II. OUR DUTIES. (continued 3)

It is customary to prepare for the “solemn days” during the month of Elul, by additional prayers, called ‏סליחות‎ “forgiveness,” after or before the Daily Service, and by blowing the shofar at the close of the Daily Service.101 According to the Portuguese Ritual, the Selichoth begin on the 1st of Elul, and are continued morning and evening till the Day of Atonement. The German Ritual has Selichoth only in the Morning Service; they begin on the Sunday before New-year, and if the Festival is on Monday or Tuesday, on the second Sunday before, and end on the Day of Atonement. The blowing of the shofar takes place in the German Synagogues during the month of Elul, in the Portuguese this custom is not practiced.