What Is Tu Be’Av? Isn’t Av Supposed to be a Mournful Month? Originally published July 20-21, 2018
July 24, 2018
We do tend to get serious during the month of Av, but in the middle of the month is Tu Be’Av, the Day of Love! The fifteenth day of the month of Av, ט"ו באב, was, according to the Mishnah (Ta’anit 4:8), a joyous holiday back in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, to […]