<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">S.F. wrote: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">I had thought of that answer but I find it to be incomplete. You can't have<br>it both ways. Either it's fasting, or it isn't. If it isn't fasting, then<br>there is no need to make a restriction on eating and drinking during that<br>time.</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">With that reasoning, you can say that all people fast every day -- from the time</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">they go to sleep until they wake up. Therefore, we are all tzaddikim because </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">we all fast EVERY day, since <i>You can't have it both ways</i>.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">There are parts of every day we don't eat or drink. That doesn't mean that</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">we have fasted.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">(Tisha B'Av is more about public mourning rather than fasting. So not eating the last hour</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">of Shabbos (if that is indeed the case) is not a public display of mourning anyway).</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></div></body></html>