[Avodah] tachanun

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Eli Turkel asked:

> I have trouble understanding the days that tachanun is not said.
> On one hand we dont say in the house of a mourner OTOH we don't
> say it when a chatan is in shul (note the difference between a
> mourner and a groom)

In one case, there is so much sadness already present, that adding to it would be cruel or redundant. In the other, there is so much joy present that sadness is incompatible. Thus we see two opposite causes having the same effect.

Similar paradoxes happen elsewhere. My favorite example concerns the two cases where we omit besamim on Motzaei Shabbos.

Of course, we normally smell the besamim to invigorate us as the neshama yeseira leaves. But when Shabbos becomes Yom Tov it isn't needed, and when Shabbos becomes Tisha b'Av it won't help.

Akiva Miller


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