Quote from Jewish Tele Agency...

"According to this Midrash, knowing their fate, each subsequent year the Israelites would dig their own graves before Tisha b’Av and then sleep in these graves on Tisha b’Av night. In the morning, they would get up and count who remained alive. And every time, they would find that 15,000 people (one-fortieth of the people who left Egypt) had died."

 

"Finally, after 40 years had passed, the people again dug graves for Tisha B’Av, but in the morning everyone remained alive. Worried that they had gotten the date wrong, the people slept in their graves again the next night, and the next. Finally, after six nights had passed, they understood that their parents’ generation was entirely gone, and that everyone still alive would be allowed into the land. That day, according to Midrash, was Tu b’Av (15th of Av), which Jews still celebrate as a day of joy [Eicha Rabbah, Petichta 33]."

 

"That Tu b’Av morning, upon realizing that their parents’ reality was not their own, and they stepped out of the grave."

 

Upon rising up they passed over the Jordan and entered the promised land. To celebrate the event annually the Jewish virgins dressed in white and danced in the fields to attract husbands.  Ancient Jews considered Tu B'Av to be one of the holiest festivals.  If Jesus fulfilled all the spring holy days, wouldn't the next holy day yet to be filled be Tu B'av?  Tu B'Av, a practically forgotten festival

 

This year, Tu B'Av is August 18/19.

 

P.S. Please,remember my wife in your prayers as she has been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer.