[Avodah] Tisha B'Av on Sunday

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:06:40PM -0400, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: Every time you go one hour without food -- especially when your stomach  is 
: already full -- do you call that fasting?!  But even if you were  actually 
: hungry, it would not be called "fasting" if you had eaten earlier that  day.

My problem with the practice isn't with fasting, but with the idea that
it's not explicit aveilus berabbim beShabbos. Okay, if it were just about
not eating for an hour, that's one thing. But given that most men visibly
broke from their norm of when to daven minchah and eat "shaleshudis",
how is this not a public display?

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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