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 ?????? ??? ???? ??? 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. ?????, davka in the 3 weeks let us be more involved in ????? ??? ????? ????? ?? (after all, ???? ?? ?’ ????? applies even in chodesh Av)!

There is the famous vort on “?????? ?? ?????? – ?????”:
?????? ?? ?????? – we must start to decrease in certain things (showers, music, meat, etc.) – but in what manner? “?????”! 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 ????? ?????? during these serious days.