I wish you all an easy fast.
This will be my last post until after sundown tomorrow. Long after. My synagogue’s services tend to go over the usual time, so I figure I’ll be fasting for (sigh) some 27 hours.
And no, the cats will not be fasting.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Someone wished me a “meaningful” fast last night, and after thinking about it for a while, I am changing all my Yom Kippur greetings to this, it seems very appropriate.
Meryl, have a meaningful fast.
DZ
Must be tough. How do you fast if you’re a diabetic ?.
You don’t. If you are sick, or pregnant, or taking medication that has to be taken with food, or going to endanger your health in any way, you are forbidden to fast.
In Judaism, saving our lives trumps most of our laws. For instance, if a Jew were trapped on a desert island with only non-kosher food to eat, that Jew would be required to eat that food to survive.
I agree. Our Rabbi says that fasting and standing are methods of prayer, not a suicide pact.