<div dir="ltr">RZSero writes, "
I will not be so foolish as to claim there are no communities where it has lately become the "established custom" not to fast but still to say <br>Selichos; there are so many different customs that it's foolish to insist that *anything* doesn't exist. So I will merely say that I have never heard of such a thing."<div><br></div><div>It is surprising that RZS has never heard of such a thing, given that it is -- and has been for decades -- the practice in virtually all Litvishe yehivos, in the US and Israel, to do just that: say the slichos of BH"B, but not fast. I am virtually certain that such was the custom in Lita itself. It is also the practice in the shuls of the Prushim in Yerushalayim. While doubtless the custom originated as a fast with slichos, the fast was long ago abandoned, while slichos lo zazu mim'komon.</div><div><br></div><div>EMT</div></div>