<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">My father sheyichyeh once suggested to me that there is a strong reason</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">to favor the nidcheh / muqdam date over 5 Iyyar. The existence of a</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">country in which the legal holidays are moved around so as to minimize</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">chilul Shabbos is much of the significance of the event.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">OTOH, if you really believe that 5 Iyyar is the anniversary of an event</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">worthy of saying Hallel, that argument doesn't really workd for a moved</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">date. My father's line of reasoning only makes sense to me for those</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">who don't say Hallel.>></span><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">R Ariel points out that the British mandate actually ended on the 6th of Iyar which was a shabbat.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Ben Gurion moved up the announcement of indeoendence to friday afternoon to avoid chillul shabbat.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hence, the "real" YH should have been the 6th of Iyar and and only observance of shabbat changed the date. Hence, now when YH is moved because of shabbat it actually reminds us that shabbat is part of the independence of EY.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hence, his final psak for this year is to Hallel on tuesday the 6th of Iyar and not to say Tachanun on both monday and tuesday the 5th and 6th of iyar (that is what my shul is doing)<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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