Purpose of Fasting

Fasting is meant to help people focus on important issues when tragedy strikes, or on days that commemorate calamities.

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Purpose of Fasting

Fasting is meant to help people focus on important issues when tragedy strikes.

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Purpose of Fasting

Fasting is meant to help people focus on important issues when tragedy strikes.

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Purpose of Fasting

Fasting is meant to help people focus on important issues when tragedy strikes.

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Fasting on Friday

The general rule of Jewish fast days is that they cannot occur on Friday. This rule is meant to protect the joy and happiness of Shabbat, for the sages felt that entering Shabbat hungry…

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Fasting on Friday

The general rule of Jewish fast days is that they cannot occur on Friday. This rule is meant to protect the joy and happiness of Shabbat, for the sages felt that entering Shabbat hungry…

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Fasting

Have a meaningful, healthy and easy fast.

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Fasting

If you were unable to fast or unaware that today was a fast day, take a few minutes and make a taanit dibur, a fast of words, during which one refrains from speaking any lashon harah…

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Yom Kippur 5771-2010

"When Yom Kippur Occurs on Shabbat" by Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald The Hebrew calendar is designed so that Yom Kippur can never fall on Friday or Sunday. To prevent Yom Kippur from…

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Nu, Don’t Eat

A popular joke: Most Jewish holidays can be subsumed under the pithy phrase: “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!” For a nation obsessed with food, what’s with all the fasting?…

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