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size=2>>>My problem with the practice isn't with fasting, but with the
idea that<BR>it's not explicit aveilus berabbim beShabbos. Okay, if it were just
about<BR>not eating for an hour, that's one thing. But given that most men
visibly<BR>broke from their norm of when to daven minchah and eat
"shaleshudis",<BR>how is this not a public display?<<<BR></FONT></DIV>
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size=2>>>>>><BR>By no stretch of the imagination can a major meal
be called a "public display /of mourning/." A better question might be,
isn't this hachana lechol?<BR></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><STRONG></STRONG><BR><B>--Toby
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