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Tu Be'Av is is the fifteenth day of the month of Av. It is a day of celebration for many reasons and as a result we do not recite [[Tachanun]] it or the mincha beforehand. Chazal in fact state that it 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>
[[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>


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