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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Avodah] Fasting on Yom
Kippur</DIV>
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size=2>TK typing in her sleep as usual wrote this:</FONT></DIV><FONT
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<DIV><BR>>>.... I didn't mean to imply that <BR>there is a
blanket heter for pregnant women to fast on Yom Kippur ...<<</DIV>
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<DIV>A gentle kibbitzer wrote to me off-list to ask, >>Do you
mean that in general, pregnant women are prohibited from fasting on YK?
:) <<</DIV>
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<DIV>Sigh.</DIV>
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<DIV>Please add the absolutely essential word NOT in your text, thus:</DIV>
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<DIV>There is no blanket heter for pregnant women NOT to fast on Yom
Kippur.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you.</DIV>
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<DIV>Perhaps I posted this a few years ago but much time has passed and
members have changed, and the subject has re-emerged. At any rate now seems a
good time to tell how Rav Brandsdorfer shlita, Rav of Toldos Aharon,
handled the situation. </DIV>
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<DIV>I was pregnant with my first, twins, due at the end of Tishre.
Rav Brandsdorfer told us to first consult with our doctor concerning my
needs. My doctor said that I did not need to eat but should drink.
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<DIV>Based on this, the Rav made the psak that I should drink less than
shiurim of plain water over prescribed time intervals. I should rest the
entire day and NOT wait till feeling unwell to start these shiurim.
I followed his instructions to the letter and Baruch Hashem had my
babies on their due date ( 28th Tishre) with no complications, Baruch Hashem.
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<DIV>I generally fast well and have never had to do this any other Yom Kippur.
( I had a birth on 8th of Cheshvan (big and late!) and others in
Kislev and Shvat, those were the closest to YK) </DIV>
<DIV>The only other time over 12 years of childbearing and nursing I've had to
break the fast was Tisha BeAv when I was nursing a baby seven months old.
(supplemented) It was 3 p.m. on a hot afternoon and I was starting to
feel faint. Husband insisted I drink my fill right then. </DIV>
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<DIV>(Ironically, when I googled Rav Brandsdorfer just now the first entry was
from Avodah, and the second, the account of my first birth from my web pages)
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