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Yehuda Lave is an author, journalist, psychologist, rabbi, spiritual teacher, and coach, with degrees in business, psychology and Jewish Law. He works with people from all walks of life and helps them in their search for greater happiness, meaning, business advice on saving money, and spiritual engagement.

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The Three Musketeers at the Kotel

The Three are Rabbi Yehuda Glick, famous temple mount activist, and former Israel Mk, and then Robert Weinger, the world's greatest shofar blower and seller of Shofars, and myself after we had gone to the 12 gates of the Temple Mount in 2020 to blow the shofar to ask G-d to heal the world from the Pandemic. It was a highlight to my experience in living in Israel and I put it on my blog each day to remember.

The articles that I include each day are those that I find interesting, so I feel you will find them interesting as well. I don't always agree with all the points of each article but found them interesting or important to share with you, my readers, and friends. It is cathartic for me to share my thoughts and frustrations with you about life in general and in Israel. As a Rabbi, I try to teach and share the Torah of the G-d of Israel as a modern Orthodox Rabbi. I never intend to offend anyone but sometimes people are offended and I apologize in advance for any mistakes. The most important psychological principle I have learned is that once someone's mind is made up, they don't want to be bothered with the facts, so, like Rabbi Akiva, I drip water (Torah is compared to water) on their made-up minds and hope that some of what I have share sinks in. Love Rabbi Yehuda Lave.

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Tu B’Av: A Day Of Love in Jewish Tradition

July 29th is the date of Tu B’Av this year, the 15th day of the month of Av. Valentine’s Day is seen as a Christian holiday, but Tu B’Av, the Day of Love, is the Jewish alternative.

The ancient tradition of the Jewish “Day of Love” is on “Tu B’Av” or, the 15th of the Jewish month of Av, which like all Jewish days, starts at sunset the day before, and continues until sunset the following day. The tradition was that unmarried women should go to dance in the vineyards, wearing white dresses (so that no one had the advantage of fancy clothes) and that men would go and pick one to be their bride. The Talmud speaks about this tradition immediately after describing how to mark the sad day of Tisha B’Av, which was the week before. In Tractate Taanit, the young men are called upon to choose wisely, using Proverbs 31 as their guide. The theme of love and marriage is so important in Judaism, and indeed the Bible, not only to be fruitful and multiply, but because it manifests the plans, heart and nature of God, right before our eyes. The very definition of true love.

The Jewish Tradition

This Jewish text, remembering times from before the destruction of the temple in 70 AD, gives us some insight into the celebrations of Tu B’Av:

“Rabbi Simeon ben Gamaliel said: there never were in Israel greater days of joy than the fifteenth of Av and the Day of Atonement. On these days the daughters of Jerusalem used to walk out in white garments which they borrowed in order not to put to shame any one who had none. All these garments required ritual dipping. The daughters of Jerusalem came out and danced in the vineyards exclaiming at the same time, young man, lift up thine eyes and see what thou choosest for thyself. Do not set thine eyes on beauty but set thine eyes on [good] family. Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman that feareth the lord, she shall be praised. And it further says, give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates.” Tractate Taanit 26b

Today, Tu B’Av, or “Love Day” is akin to Valentines Day in many regards, but it has historically been a time for matchmaking the unmarried. Although arranged marriages are common in Hasidic Judaism, the important aspect of choice still plays a part. Although only a few dates may be had before marriage, both the man and woman are free to back out if they choose, and try again with another match. Unlike common western ideas which idolize the state of “being in love” as the end goal of a relationship and a marriage, this system assumes that love can grow and develop

What is the goal of marriage? The true goal of marriage is to become one.

The “being in love” stabilizing training wheels give us a free sample of how it feels to love as God does… the passionate desire to be with that person, the delight in every aspect of who they are and the lack of focus on their faults, and so on. It gives us the experience of how it feels to love – a boost and a help as we learn how to live it out with all the sacrifices that are required. God is crazy in love with us, and he gave everything just to be with us. And he can help us learn how to love too.

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