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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=3>From: Ben Waxman
<ben1456@smile.net.il><br>
> Rav Eli Turkel wrote:<br>
>R. Nebenzahl is very mekil basically on the grounds given by<br>
>Meir Sheinar. Others (i have heard it from R. Zilberstein) are
machmir<br>
>on the grounds that pregnant women have fasted on YK for many
years<br>
>and we have no record in shutim of any problems.<br>
1) I read that Rav Yaacov Fisher gave a blanket heter for women in <br>
their 3rd trimester not to fast.<br>
2) Your second point, that there is no record in shutim, I find very
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strange. Does a posek have to wait until the problem makes its way to
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a shut before reopening the question?</font></blockquote><br>
As to whether pregnant women fasting on YK, I have never heard any
leniency on that. My wife had one of our children 11 Tishrei, so I would
have known. :) As to the other fasts, on the minor ones they do not fast,
and I heard from my Rebbe, the Bobover Rov ZT'L that my wife was
not allowed to fast 9 Av. (I have yet to find any community that is a
lenient with regards to fasting. This heter applied to nursing women
also.)<br><br>
As to not being in the Shut, I suppose one needs to see the recent works
like Nata Gavriel, which quotes views from present poskim. I would doubt
there was a blanket heter, but there may be some very lenient views that
apply in specific cases.</body>
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