Reply To: My Shavuous Roundup

Come on. You weren’t happy once over yomtov?

The way the question was framed was “is a person who is sad on Yom Tov in violation of an issur?” It was not framed as “is one required to be happy at least once over Yom Tov?”

The answer to my question is that someone who is sad over Yom Tov is in violation of the positive commandment of “v’samachatah” and is no different than someone who fails to eat matzah, sit in a sukkah, hear shofar and so on.

The Wolf