Question

“For on this day He will atone for you, to purify you; from all your sins, before the Lord you shall be purified.”
A Day of Remembrance, and between them the Ten Days of Repentance, still somehow fits into the sources and the plain meaning.
Maybe also the four days before Rosh Hashanah—from the homiletic reading of “and you shall prepare a burnt offering”: make yourselves into the offering, meaning, fix yourselves—so at least four days before Rosh Hashanah the Ashkenazim begin selichot, somehow with a source.
But from the beginning of the month of Elul—whose name in any case comes from the gentiles and their idols and all the rest of their nonsense—to supposedly make it a time of dread of judgment and terror, “El Al” really lacks genuine sources.
What does the Rabbi think? On the ground, do you know the tension in the yeshivot around El Al?