God Almighty will not save.

For on this day atonement will be made for you to cleanse you from all your sins before the Lord. You will be clean.
A day of remembrance and ten days of repentance between them somehow entered the sources and the plain
Maybe also 4 days before Rosh Hashanah you preached and made an oleh, make yourselves, that is, you will mend yourselves, and therefore at least 4 days before Rosh Hashanah the Ashkenazim will begin Selichot somehow with a source
But from the beginning of the month of Elul, whose name actually comes from the Gentiles and their statues and other nonsense, as if it were a time of terror and the horrors of God, there are no real sources. 
What does the rabbi in the field think? Is he familiar with the tension in yeshivas about Elal?