Ever wonder what Tu B’Av is all about?

We just went through Tisha B'Av and now we come  to Tu B'Av. Tu B'Av is a day that we celebrate   the closeness to Hashem that we can achieve  through our teshuva. Every single year in the   desert those who are 60 years old on Tisha  B'Av would go to sleep and would not wake up   the next morning. And this went on for almost  40 years. And then one year those who were 60   went to bed and woke up the next morning. And  they thought they made a mistake and they did   the same thing the next night, until on Tu B'Av  they realized that Hashem had forgiven the Jewish   people and they were now ready to enter into  Eretz Yisrael. It was the righteous women of   the Jewish people that established a celebration.  They would all wear beautiful white gowns and   they would go out into the field and they would  dance together to celebrate this closeness with   Hashem. So let's celebrate this year. Let's  celebrate the closeness that we have with   Hashem. Let's celebrate the purity of the Jewish  people. And let's do so by thinking of others.