Tu B'Av and Yom Kippur are truly one and the same!

If a person believes in what our Sages say, then now on Tu B'Av, it is truly like Kol Nidrei. Only instead of fasting and saying Selichot, we are given juice and good cakes so that we can have a joyful Yom Kippur.

Hashem accepts teshuvah today

The gates of heaven are open. Every person can receive today holy eyes, a holy mind, everyone can merit today. With joy, with dancing, with singing, with eating and drinking, one can merit today everything that can be merited on Yom Kippur. Just keep your head. Remember that it is Yom Kippur. Although the shops are not closed and cars are driving on the street, a person must remember that he is now with Hashem, he is now on the fifteenth of Av, he receives all the strength to do teshuvah.

Today they distribute minds! They distribute hearts!

Utilize this day of the fifteenth of Av to guard your eyes, to guard your thoughts, to sleep a little less, to go to the field. To dance, to sing songs. Today they distribute minds! They distribute hearts! A person regrets, cries out to Hashem: I am fed up with forbidden desires, I am fed up with forbidden thoughts. Then Hashem will give a new heart, a new mind. A person who truly wants to rectify will live long until he rectifies

Our Rebbe gives us the opportunity to do teshuvah. He never takes people in the middle of their rectification. A person who does teshuvah and truly wants to change, he will live long and many years, up to one hundred and twenty, until he knows how to guard his eyes, until he knows how to guard his thoughts. Until he has pure thoughts. Because even if I am the most wicked in the world, God forbid, I can do teshuvah. There is no need to be confused. There is no need to despair. That is why we came into the world. If someone embarrasses you, then admit it. Say yes, I am wicked. I am the greatest wicked. But, I can do teshuvah.

We were given the gift of the fifteenth of Av

We were given the gift of the fifteenth of Av, a day when one can emerge from all the falls, from all the obstacles, from all the failures, from all the nonsense, from all the illusions. A day when a person is given tremendous strength, strength from heaven. A new neshamah (soul) is brought down to him, a new mind is brought down to him, new eyes are brought down to him. Today is the true teshuvah. Like the night of Kol Nidrei. We have such a wonderful day of atonement for sins through songs and dances with immense joy, which reaches the heels and makes the feet jump. And one can eat and drink and rejoice – and again eat and drink and again rejoice and again dance.

The mourning of Tisha B'Av turns into teshuvah from joy

After we cried from the depths of our hearts over the destruction of the Holy Temple on Tisha B'Av, we rejoice and increase in dancing and circles over its rebuilding. The mourning and sorrow turn into gladness and joy. All the descents and all the destructions are vessels to receive such immense joy, more than we would have received without these disasters. Tu B'Av is the seventh day after Tisha B'Av, a reflection of Simchat Torah which is the peak of joy in all the days of the year. Tu B'Av is the sweetening of Tisha B'Av. We increase in joy and circles and sins are forgiven. A person receives a new neshamah and he can sing and dance, pray with enthusiasm, rejoice."

Today everyone can receive a completely new neshamah that they never had before

He - can suddenly begin to pray with enthusiasm, sing and dance, guard his eyes, guard his thoughts in kedushah (holiness). Everyone can reach great things today because today is the day of the creation of the souls, 40 days before the creation of the world, which was created on the 25th of Elul. A reflection of "Forty days before the formation of the fetus, a heavenly voice goes out and proclaims: the daughter of so-and-so to so-and-so." Today everyone receives a new neshamah. A neshamah with patience, a neshamah with settled mind, a neshamah with attachment to Hashem, a neshamah with love for Hashem. In memory of Rabbi Shmuel ben Sarah zt"l.