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Tu Be'Av is is the fifteenth day of the month of Av. It is a day of celebration | [[Tu Be'Av]] is is the fifteenth day of the month of Av. It is a day of celebration commemorating a number of joyous events in Jewish history, and, as a result, we do not recite [[Tachanun]] on it or at the [[Mincha]] beforehand. | ||
==Why is Tu Be'Av a Holiday?== | ==Why is Tu Be'Av a Holiday?== | ||
Chazal state that Tu Be'Av is one of the two happiest days of the year. | |||
# It was the day when the Jewish people in the desert stopping dying in the plague as a result of the sin of the spies. | |||
# It is was the day that the Jewish boys and girls would go out to the field to find a potential spouse to get married. | |||
# It was the day that the tribes decided to make peace with Binyamin after they had a brutal civil war and almost wiped them out. | |||
# It was the day that the wood that was donated during the summer for the Mizbe'ach in the Bet Hamikdash would be completed. | |||
# It was the day on which the Jews were given permission to bury their dead in Beitar after the Romans massacred them and didn't let them bury their dead.<ref>Gemara Tanit 30b</ref> | |||
According to the Zohar<ref>Zohar vol. 2 page 195</ref>, one must make Simcha on Tu BeAv because of Ilui Shechinah.<ref>Moreh BaEtzbah 8:242, Ben Ish Chai (Shanah Sheniah, Devarim 1)</ref> | According to the Zohar<ref>Zohar vol. 2 page 195</ref>, one must make Simcha on Tu BeAv because of Ilui Shechinah.<ref>Moreh BaEtzbah 8:242, Ben Ish Chai (Shanah Sheniah, Devarim 1)</ref> | ||