"MM- TRUE LOVE!” Monday Motivation w.Rabbi Garfinkel 7-27-26

And what happens right after the ninth of Av is something called Tu B'Av.

Now, many of you might've heard of something called Tu B'Shavat.

So what's this two stuff? Well, it's not the English number one or two.

It is actually the 15th of the month.

meaning it's an acronym of the Hebrew letter Tet, which is the gematria, the numerical equivalent of nine, and Vav, which is six.

So Tu B'Shvat is the 15th of the month of Shvat, and Tu B'Av is the 15th month of Av.

And the question is, what is happened on Tu B'Av? Well, the Gemarantinus, I know you're going to say has 10 or more answers of what happened there.

And yes, they're all true.

But we'd like to focus on one of them to explain what this holiday is.

It's under the radar this holiday.

How many people have heard of Tu B'Av? And we are going to use it as a platform to discuss true love.

Yes, indeed.

True love What everyone is looking for.

The secrets are found right here in Monday Motivation.

They're actually found in the Torah.

Because Hashem is our manufacturer.

And he sent along with making us instructions about how to best use and how to best utilize our potential as human beings.

And so before we get to what true love is, let's figure out a little bit over here about what happened on the 15th of Av.

And here we go.

So on the 15th of Av, which is a time of reconciliation.

of God and the Jewish people, their vibes of reconciliation, six days later on Tu B'Av.

It was the great day of Shidduchim, of matches, where the young maidens would go down into the valley, and the young men would go down to the valley, and they were given almost a divine inspiration to look deep into character, into...

Things of lasting value, not just superficialities, not just good looks.

And in fact, the maidens would switch dresses so that people wouldn't know who were the wealthy ones and who were not the wealthy ones.

There was a sense of camaraderie that you had to look deeper than skin deep.