Tu B'Av: Judaism's Strangest Holy Day

July 28, 2026

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The Talmud gives six different reasons for celebrating this date, from tribal reconciliation to the end of the desert generation's deaths to the wood offerings for the Temple altar. None of them seem to explain why this became a day for joy and marriage.

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