[Avodah] Tisha B'Av, Greetings - Mazel Tov on Tisha B'Av

Lisa Liel via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue Aug 1 06:27:17 PDT 2017


On 8/1/2017 6:01 AM, Micha Berger via Avodah wrote:
> We call the month Av as a zikaron of Galus Bavel and the subsequent
> ge'ulah.
Um... all of our month names are Babylonian.  Including Adar, which is a 
month of joy.  There's no reason we wouldn't be calling Tisha B'Av, and 
teaching our children, "Did you know that Tisha B'Av used to be a day of 
mourning?"

Lisa


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