boy, I needed a good laugh at the end the day and I got it reading some of the posts…thanks, wolf ! (and others)
I am surprised, though, at the words of prof1 who, from another thread i learned went to Torah Vodaath. He says that ‘tu be’av’ was only done “back then” but the “reason” for it is not here today anymore. Suppose I said that about, oh, lighting a fire on shabbos- ‘oh, back then, when it was so difficult you could not but today it is only the flip of a switch” and we don’t need that anymore. THAT woulsd bring everyone down on me as an apikorus. why is the assertion that what happened in the days of the gemoro (tu be’av AND YOM KIPPUR,btw)something that was ‘done back then’ but not today, different? it is the height of chutzpah to assert that minhagim of the gemoro’s time are not relevant anymore.