[Avodah] girsa d'yankusa

[Rich, Joel]

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.

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R'YBS explained simcha as being lfnei hashem, I would expand to say (much like the flip side of R' Yonason Sacks who explains why we drink on Purim because we are still avdei d'achashverush) the intensity of the simcha/lfnai hashem on Y"K is so intense, no physical assistance is needed.  Just a thought.
KT
Joel Rich


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