Bs”d
Tisha B’Av (5774)
by Mordechai Dolinsky
It is difficult to understand why Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the year is patur from Tachanun because it is referred to as a מועד which means that it is a יום טוב, a time of simcha. Can it be that just because of the simple reference to the word מועד the אבילות should get a דין of Yom Tov?
After we cut away all the fulfillment of the mitzvos of Yom Tov and the celebration the main inner point is the closeness with Hashem. On Tisha B’Av after we cut away the איכה, all the kinos and the many tears the essence, the inner point, is the closeness to Hashem. This could be the מועד.