[Avodah] The Many Facets of Asarah B'Teves

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 06/01/17 03:40, Professor L. Levine via Avodah wrote:
> For example, exclusive to this fast is that it is the only one that
 > we do actually observe as a fast on a Friday. Even Tisha B’Av, which
> commemorates the  actual destructions of our Batei HaMikdash, gets
 > pushed off.

Not true.  We never push off a fast because it's on a Friday (except Yom 
Kippur).  It's just that none of the other major fasts ever happen to 
fall on a Friday.   If they did, there is no question at all that we 
would fast.  Minor fasts, such as the fasts observed by the Chevraya 
Kadishaya, *can* fall on Friday, and when they do they are completed.



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