Submitted by Rabbi Arthur Waskow on
Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Cosmic Origins of Tu B'Av
According to Bnei Yesakhar, a Hassidic teaching by R. Zvi Elimelekh Shapira of Dinov, p. 112d, translated by Ivan Ickovits:
We learn from tradition that the daughters of Israel would go out in a circle on Yom Kippur [and on Tu B