It is our custom to say some divrei Torah (words of Torah). Today happens to be a special day. Today, of course, is Tu B'Av (the fifteenth of Av), Tet-Vav B'Av. So we will direct our comments today keneged (corresponding to) this very special day.
The Gemara in Ta'anit (Tractate Ta'anit), on daf lamed-alef (folio thirty-one), tells us some of the great things about this day, what would happen in the olden times. The Gemara tells us how the girls would go out; they would lend each other clothes so the poor girl wouldn't get embarrassed, because everybody was borrowing clothes from each other. And then benot Yisrael yotz'ot vecholot bekramim (The daughters of Israel go out and dance in the vineyards). Benot Yisrael would go out and they would make like a cholot (dancing), dance in the kramim (vineyards). Tana, mi she'ein lo ishah nifneh lesham (It was taught: one who has no wife goes there). And all the bachelors who didn't have any wives would go hang out over there. That was the place where you pick up the shiduchim (marriage matches).