There’s a story about a chasidishe place that skipped tachanun on every yahrtzeit they could find. They skipped it so often that they had gone a whole year without ever saying the long version of tachanun because every Monday and Thursday was another “yom tov”. Finally one Monday came when there was no known yahrtzeit. The chasidim were so excited that they were finally going to say long tachanun and in their excitement decided to celebrate and declare that day a yom tov. Because of the yom tov – they skipped tachanun.
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