Through the Dancing of Tu B’Av, All Wars are Nullified – Rabbi Eliezer Berland Shlit”a

WHY DO WE GO OUT SPECIFICALLY ON TU B’AV TO DANCE?  WHY DOES A GIRL WHO BOUGHT A DRESS OF DIAMONDS NEED TO WEAR A DRESS OF RAGS?  WHAT IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TU B’AV AND YOM KIPPUR AND HOW IS THIS CONNECTED TO THE NULLIFICATION OF ALL WARS? BEFORE YOU IS A SPECIAL AND FASCINATING SHIUR FROM MOREINU HARAV ELIEZER BERLAND SHLIT”A ABOUT THE GREATNESS OF TU B’AV – THE DAY OF DANCING: On Tu B’Av, all the daughters of Israel go out and dance in the vineyards – all the daughters of Israel!  Throughout the Land of Israel, a police force of Shuvu Banim passes through, takes everyone out of their homes, and everyone must dance – all the girls, fourteen hours, from six until eight, in dresses that are all white, pure white as snow.  All the dresses are pure white as snow.  One [girl] went to China and brought a dress [worth] two million dollars, as white as snow, as pure as snow, adorned with Odem, Pitdah, Bareket, Nofech, Sapir, Yahalom, Leshem, Shevo, and Achlamah, Tarshish [the gemstones of the Kohen Gadol’s breastplate]… two billion dollars.  She came to Jerusalem, to her neighborhood, went to the rabbi of the neighborhood.  He tells her that the dress is disqualified.  The dress is disqualified?  Why?  What, does it have Shaatnez [a forbidden mixture of wool and linen]?  What?  I saw how the fabric was woven.  I was present when the wool was sheared from the sheep.  What is wrong with it?  Why is this dress disqualified?  She began to cry, oceans [of tears] she cried.  The Mishnah at the end of Taanit says that then it is permissible only to dance in borrowed white clothes.  There was one [girl] from Shuvu Banim who found a white dress in the dumpster, in the garbage.  She laundered it, rinsed it.  They told her to give her dress that she found in the dumpster, and you, who bought a dress in China, give her your dress.  I bought this in China, Beijing!  We don’t care; it’s written in the Mishnah, “borrowed white clothes” – only borrowed white clothes!  Everyone takes a dress from her friend, the princess with the Kohen Gadol’s daughter, the Kohen Gadol’s daughter with the deputy [Kohen Gadol’s] daughter. Why do we dance on Tu B’Av?  Because this is Adam Kadmon of Adam Kadmon [lit. “Primordial Man,” the highest of the supernal worlds], because then we merit to Adam Kadmon.  Then we ascend to Adam Kadmon, then we reach Adam Kadmon.  On Tu B’Av, the souls of Israel were created, all of them with the name A”V of Adam Kadmon.  They are all from Adam Kadmon of Adam Kadmon.  “Trembling gripped the might ones of Moav.”  Trembling (ra’ad) is the joining of Rachel and Leah, because ra’ad is the numerical value of Rachel and Leah.  Like Tefilin, so are shoes.  The Tefilin of Rachel are in the shoes of Leah, in the heels of Leah, in the sole of Leah.  “What fear made a crown for its head, humility made a heel (ekev) for its sole.”  These are the soles.  The Divine service of a person is to be a sole – “Vahaya Ekev – It shall be that as a result of… [which can also be interpreted as ‘be a heal’]” – be a sole.  Do not remove your head from the Gemara, do remove your head from the book.  “Yissachar is a strong-boned donkey” – in his life, he never took his head out of the book. So on the fifteenth of Av, when all the daughters of Israel go out and dance in the vineyards, the girls only need to dance for twenty-hours; through dancing like this, then sweeten all the judgments.  Therefore, on Yom Kippur, they only dance.  Through dancing, all the wars all nullified.  The fifteenth of Av is like Yom Kippur mamash.  It is written that the fifteenth of Av is Yom Kippur mamash.  Therefore, it is written that this is the day of dancing.  Because by the girls, everything is forgiven in a second.  It’s not like it is by the men, who need to cry and sit on the ground, and to finish Shas in order for them to have atonement.  By the girls, everything is forgiven in a thousandth of a second!  The girls have no transgressions, so by them everything is forgiven with one thought, with one good fleeting thought.  One regret and everything is forgiven!  They were so righteous that they only went out dancing.  Yom Kippur is a day of dancing.  During the First Temple, it was a [day] of dancing; in the Second [Temple it was a day of] dancing.  Now we are during the destruction, but when the Third Temple will be built, Yom Kippur will turn into a day of dancing.  But only for girls, not for boys.  The boys will sit and cry, and the girls will go out dancing in the vineyards!!