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

Richard Wolberg via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Sun Aug 6 04:29:32 PDT 2017


R’ Akiva wrote:
….then why does it remain assur to say "Shalom Aleichem" in a
bathroom?

I would say the reason is that Shalom is one of God’s Names.

There was once a study done on people’s responses to “How are you?”
The respondent was supposed to answer in the negative. So instead of
saying “fine, thank you,” the response would be either “terrible,” “awful,”
“not good,” etc. and guess what? Something like 90% would not even 
have realized the negative response. In other words, it is very perfunctory
when someone greets someone else in a normal setting. 


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