[Avodah] girsa d'yankusa

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' David Riceman wrote:

> I vividly remember one of my high school rebbeim insisting that
> Yom Kippur is a Yom Simcha.  Recently I encountered (Massaches
> Sofrim 19:6): "ein mazkirin bo [on YK] lo moed v'lo simchah
> she'ain simchah b'lo achilah".
>
> Has my memory failed or am I missing something?

I too have heard many times about simcha on Yom Kippur.

I was going to cite the gemara about Tu B'Av and Yom Kippur, but when I looked it up (Taanis 30b), I see they are called Yamim Tovim, but the word "simcha" does not appear.

I also looked up RDR's quote from Sofrim, because I wanted to see it in context. It seems to me that Sofrim there is establishing the text to be said in the Yom Tov Amidah, in the paragraph "Vatiten Lanu". I was hoping to dispose of RDR's question by showing that we simply do not follow Maseches Sofrim, but it seems that we do: On other Yom Tovim, we say the phrase "moadim l'simchah", but on RH and YK we omit it -- or at least, MY machzor does.

RDR's question stands.

Akiva Miller

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