How Do Some Jews Observe Major and Minor Fasting? Do All Jews Fast?

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EP: 6 S1 - Part 2

Links to Rabbi Neal Gold Blog: https://www.atreewithroots.org/

Article on Fasting: https://tinyurl.com/4ywck8af

"Fasting is about empathy. When we go a few hours without eating, we feel it. That feeling should remind us of the great numbers of people, some of them quite nearby, who know hunger (of all sorts) every day. Our discomfort, modest as it may be, is supposed to make us more compassionate, more generous, more sensitive to the needs of others. It is one thing to say it; it is quite another to feel it in our kishkas." Neal Gold teaches and writes about Jewish texts, Israel, and intersections between Jewish life and the contemporary world.

Neal is adjunct faculty and a lecturer for Hebrew College’s Me'ah program, courses of study that empower adults to understand Judaism on a deeper level. He is the Jewish Chaplain & Hillel Director at Babson College in Wellesley, MA, and the Past President of the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis.

For a full bio: https://www.atreewithroots.org/about-me Here is what Rabbi Gold recited in this interview from Torah: Isaiah 58:3-7 “Why, when we fasted, did You not see? When we starved our bodies, did You pay no heed?”

Because on your fast day You see to your business And oppress all your laborers! Because you fast in strife and contention, And you strike with a wicked fist! Your fasting today is not such As to make your voice heard on high. Is such the fast I desire, A day for men to starve their bodies? Is it bowing the head like a bulrush And lying in sackcloth and ashes?

Do you call that a fast, A day when the LORD is favorable? No, this is the fast I desire: To unlock fetters of wickedness, And untie the cords of the yoke-a To let the oppressed go free; To break off every yoke. It is to share your bread with the hungry, And to take the wretched poor into your home; When you see the naked, to clothe him, And not to ignore your own kin.

Neal

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