Tu B’Av - which begins tonight [Friday] - is just 45 days before the holiday of Rosh Hashanah.
In his 18th-century chasidic work, Rabbi Avraham Dov Auerbach of Avritch explains the special relationship between Tu B’Av and the period leading up to Rosh Hashanah.
And it appears to me according to that which I heard in the name of the great Maggid, may his memory be blessed for life in the world to come [it is brought in the Ohr HaMeir, at the beginning of the teaching on Rosh Hashanah]:
As he said, "Before the sun darkens (techshach)" [Ecclesiastes 12:2]" - that [corresponds to] the fifteenth of Av.
As the letters of techshach are [the same as] tash koach (strength weakens). And on the fifteenth of Av, the strength of the sun weakens, as it is found in the Talmud [Taanit 31a]…
Bat Ayin, Eikev 2
Ha! We're in for unprecedented heat for the next 7 days, beginning today, with temperatures ranging from 42 to 50. So it appears the sun is strengthening this Tu b'Av. Maybe Hashem is unsheathing the sun, as is written. If so, let's hope the evil ones sizzle into oblivion.
ReplyDeleteThe heat has been crazy around the world this summer.
ReplyDeletecomet coming closest to earth for Yom Kippur Oct 2nd https://youtu.be/ggDNk4sGfeA?si=eUJeExh0j0eM_cdN
ReplyDeleteIn Houston, we haven't even hit 100° this year by my observations. This is quite unusual. In my over 50 years in this incarnation, I've not seen this. In August, we should be sitting at around 104°. Strange weather, indeed. Hezqi.
ReplyDeleteI did not really understand your devar Torah....
ReplyDeleteThere is not necessairly a contradiction, the intensity of the sun based on its position in the sky is not the only factor that affects the weather and how we feel, there is also wind direction or lack or wind, cloudy nighttime skies, humidity etc
ReplyDeleteI'm wondering why the clouds from the passing planets don't come to Israel
ReplyDeleteThey do, but Israel doesn't seem to get the ones that bring the rain bombs and strobe lightning. I wish I could find the photo I had of the Kotel with the distinctive clouds over it, I'll try and find it again. The thing is that the residents of the countries need to be out there taking photos, and there doesn't seem to be anyone in Israel doing that.
DeleteEurope, America, China, Australia, Japan... all have people running around with cameras and submitting the photos of the SAME clouds, totally identifiable... and since when have we ever been able to IDENTIFY a cloud as it travels the world?
Never ! But now, the very same clouds appear everywhere.
Also, apparently the earth has tilted 23 degrees, and that would affect our weather.
ReplyDeleteI guess the tilt was caused by passing planets, but I don't claim to understand anything the earth does.