This Dvar Torah has been generously sponsored anonymously in the zechus of a refuah sheleima for Mazal bat Amalia Maly, דבורה חנה בת לאה רחל and Chaya Fruma bas Perel Miriam Malka and in the zchus of דבורה בת רבקה סימה, אריאלה גרינה בת חיה שרה, שרה בת רייזל מרים and for the overall hatzlacha and mazel for Tomer Devorah Seminary and all their faculty and students. For only 18 dollars you can sponsor a shiur, a Q&A, a Dvar Torah or an event. Your small contributions go a long way towards helping us continue to do the great work we are doing at Nitzotzos. To sponsor please email us at Nitzotzos@gmail.com א"ר שמעון ב"ג לא היו ימים טובים לישראל כחמשה עשר באב וכיוה"כ: בשלמא יום הכפורים משום דאית ביה סליחה ומחילה יום שניתנו בו לוחות האחרונות אלא ט"ו באב מאי היא Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel said: There were no days as happy for the Jewish people as the fifteenth of Av and as Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur we understand: it is a day of forgiveness and atonement and also the day on which the second set of tablets of the law was given [to Moses at Sinai]. However, what is the special joy of the fifteenth of Av? (Taanis 30b) While sadly many of us don't experience the simcha of Yom Kippur, the joy of once again feeling innocent in our relationship with Hashem, most of us barely have an elementary knowledge of Tu B'Av. Tu B'Av has been described as the Jewish Valentine's Day but if one studies the inner meaning of this amazing and holy day it is so much more. The purpose of this article is to explor
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