 The "Mishnah Berurah" noted that the first Hebrew letters of the words of , "et-levavecha, v’et-levav", “[the Lord your God will circumcise] your heart, and the heart [of your seed, to love the Lord your God with all your heart],” spell out , "Elul", the name of the month that includes Rosh Hashannah and Yom Kippur.The "Mishnah Berurah" cited this as Scriptural support for the practice of rising early to say prayers for forgiveness (, "Selichot") from the first day of the month of Elul until Yom Kippur.Alter saw in "life and good and death and evil" an echo of "the tree of knowledge good and evil" in Alter taught that the point is that good, which may lead to prosperity, is associated with life, just as evil, which may lead to adversity, is associated with death.