Multiply happily: How do you do it in theory?
It is said that "when a maple enters, many rejoice," but how do you actually observe the same joy?
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of Shaarei Ezra Kollel and head of the Arazi Lebanon Teaching House, explains in detail
Aryeh Zamir, in collaboration with Shuva Israel
06/03/2022
Sunday, 06 March 2022, 13:56 Updated: 14:05
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Many times, in our daily lives, halakhic questions and topical doubts float.
Rabbi Shai Tahan, head of the Shaare Ezra Kollel and head of the Arazi Lebanon Teaching House, makes the laws accessible to us and answers questions asked in and out of the beit midrash.
And today: how to keep the commandment of joy.
Question:
It is well known that the sage says, "When Adar enters, many rejoice," but I do not understand how the same joy is actually observed.
Answer:
Hello. "When a father enters, few rejoice in joy," in which we gave explicit fences for all those things that are forbidden in the month of Av, but for joy in the month of Adar, our masters did not give any fences.
Some have written that all that is needed is only to convey worry and sorrow from the heart (Rashz Orbach in Shlichot Shlomo), while some say that rather joy should be active joy, and therefore some of the great men of Israel used to drink wine on Rosh Chodesh Adar because there is no joy but wine (Rabbi Yaakov Kanievsky To the father of Rabbi Chaim
Kanievsky
shlita).
Some have given a more spiritual explanation that faith must be strengthened, and this spiritual transcendence will bring with it the joy of the heart.
Joy (lifestyle reasons)
However, it should be known: that this matter of joy is not as a joy committed in the three habits in which it is written "and rejoice in your feast", but here the matter is not obligatory but that Sages taught us in it the proper atmosphere this month.
(Through a conversation at the end of Parashat Maktz).
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