Reply To: Humor in Torah

@common saychel: Please, the 3 weeks didn’t even start yet! Some people are machmir to start preperations for Adar שלושים יום קודם החג and others are machmir to start preparing for the 3 weeks. I prefer the former.

Yiddishkeit demands we be happy. Using Torah to bring some cheer into are lives can never do any harm. אדרבה, davka in the 3 weeks let us be more involved in פקודי השם ישרים משמחי לב (after all, עבדו את ה’ בשמחה applies even in chodesh Av)!

There is the famous vort on “משנכנס אב ממעטין – בשמחה”:
משנכנס אב ממעטין – we must start to decrease in certain things (showers, music, meat, etc.) – but in what manner? “בשמחה”! Even the decrease must be in a joyous way!

This is especially this year when the fast falls out on Shabbos, thus emphasizing the joyous Yomtov’dike aspect of the 3 weeks.
(see my comment on this article: https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/2106305/the-17th-of-tammuz-and-the-3-weeks.html#comment-2090766)

P.S. I am obviously not chas v’shalom implying any leniencies in the מנהגי אבילות during these serious days.