who are we as jews and how does it tie to elul ? as jews hashem gives us a task to be the best people we can be and to work on being a better jew. when hashem gives us our neshama, hashem is giving us a task to complete, and once hashem thinks that we have completed our tasks in the world hashem takes us out of this world but when we go out of this world hashem judges us to see if we can go to gan eden and mashiach so if you know that as a human you need to do better then when elul comes you should do the most teshuva so that when your taken out of this world hashem judges you in a good way.