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Are you fasting today?

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Total Votes : 140

windowsill

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 5:54 am

Just curious to know how many of us are fasting today... Question

ChossidMom

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 7:18 am

I'm fasting.

NotInNJMommy

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 7:21 am

same here...first minor fast in a few years...

maidale

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 7:21 am

I'm not, as I never fast the minor fast days. Yom kippur always, and tisha be'av if I'm not pregnant or nursing.

drumjj

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 7:28 am

im not as I also never fast minor ones. I find very fasting very difficult

ais567

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 8:28 am

I'm not, pregnant b"h!!
Hatzlochah to all those who are, may it go by very quickly for you.

mimivan

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 8:31 am

I'm fasting although it makes me slow... Very Happy

still have a nursing baby, but he really doesn't nurse too much (twice daily)
also I understood that of the minor fast days, 17 of Tammuz is borderline major...

I remember last 17 of Tammuz was the first time I had to fast that fast pregnant. But only because I was late and the Rav said "Why not, it could speed things up."? It didn't really, but the fast wasn't awful..

miriamnechama

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 8:37 am

GoodEnough

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 8:47 am

no. I'm nursing.

greenfire

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 9:14 am

is there a fast today ... oops ... I wouldn't have made it past the kitchen anyways ... I actually did remember half way into the egg sandwich ... who wants the other half ... Wink

deams

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 9:36 am

I just broke mine. was feeling weak from hunger. I am nursing.

sky

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 10:12 am

No. I still am right now but will break it eventually.

I always feel so guilty eating - right when I start - anybody else?

chanahlady

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 10:25 am

This is the first minor fast I'm attempting. No one mention any more egg sandwiches!

Ronit

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 10:26 am

No. I'm nursing a 4.5 month old.

shalhevet

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 10:28 am

sky wrote:

No. I still am right now but will break it eventually.

I always feel so guilty eating - right when I start - anybody else?

If you've been told not to fast for halachic reasons - why should you feel guilty? Tell yourself this is your mitzva.

And if you should be fasting - then why shouldn't you feel guilty? - don't break the fast = don't feel guilty.

Atali

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 11:03 am

mimivan wrote:

I'm fasting although it makes me slow... Very Happy

Actually, of the minor fast days the Rebbe said the asarah b'teves is the most major.

NotInNJMommy

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 11:08 am

Atali wrote:

mimivan wrote:

I'm fasting although it makes me slow... Very Happy

Actually, of the minor fast days the Rebbe said the asarah b'teves is the most major.

I thought I also learned this as well. I thought I learned that asarah b'teves is the only fast for which if it falls out on shabbos (which it never does, but in theory) one would be obligated to fast on shabbos.

Atali

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 11:09 am

NotInNJMommy wrote:

Atali wrote:

mimivan wrote:

I'm fasting although it makes me slow... Very Happy

Actually, of the minor fast days the Rebbe said the asarah b'teves is the most major.

I also learned that.

small bean

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 11:16 am

im not lubavitch, but my husbands rav says even when im preg or nursing I should try asarah beteves because it's a really important fast.

I am not fasting today. I usually try to fast, but my husbands rav said not to because of the heat.

Atali

Thu, Jul 09 2009, 11:16 am

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