<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">Why is it that we're allowed to fast on Shabbos for 9 Av, especially when Shabbos is docheh 9 Av?</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">The fact is that you are not fasting on Shabbos. You may be beginning the fast at the end of Shabbos</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">and where there is a safeik d'oraita regarding whether it is even Shabbos or not, but assuming it is Shabbos,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">you've already had your three meals for Shabbos, so how can you say you are fasting on Shabbos? You're </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">fasting really on Sunday which begins Motzei Shabbos. It's not like a safeik for a bris, where Shabbos would</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">count as a whole day. Just my 3 cents (inflation).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>