Category: Fasting on Tisha B’av

Fasting While Ill

It is considered forbidden to fast on fast days if injurious to one’s health, for the sake of performing positive commandments.

Rabbi Carl Astor, The Observant Life (Book) May 10, 2023 Fasting on Tisha B'av Health

What If I Can’t (or Don’t Want to) Fast on Tisha B’Av?

Rabbi Ilana Garber offers us her nine ways to make the 9th day of Av meaningful that do not involve fasting.

Rabbi Ilana C. Garber August 1, 2022 Fasting on Tisha B'av Tisha B’Av

What are the Jewish Fast Days? What do we do?

There are three kinds of fasts in Judaism rooted in history and spiritual practice with changes to prayer services.

Rabbi Alan Lucas, The Observant Life (Book) June 21, 2022 Fasting on Tisha B'av Holidays

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Category: Fasting on Tisha B’av

Fasting While Ill

What If I Can’t (or Don’t Want to) Fast on Tisha B’Av?

What are the Jewish Fast Days? What do we do?

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