For Jews Did you Fast Today?

[kibble420]

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I fasted as I have every year since I was 11.

However, I am on post-surgery medication that I am required to take every morning so I had a sip of water to swallow the pill, which is the first time I have had water during Yom Kippur in 27 years.

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IIRC, aren't the sick exempt from fasting? It's been awhile since religious school so I don't remember exactly.

[nath]

In observance of Yom Kippur, I did not eat a Jew today.

[Aloysius]

All I know is that no one was at work and traffic was great, so like, thank you Jews.

-Al

[Pudge714]

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In observance of Yom Kippur, I did not eat a Jew today.

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Nath eating a Jew today would be stupid, they wouldn't be full on nutrients.

[Eagles]

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I think his point was more that normal white men avoid black women like the plague. Except like, Degen.

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No, his point was the same as a million other posters here, who think that because my avatar is a black celebrity, that I too am black.

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Joker,

I was mocking those million other posters

[By-Tor]

50 and counting...




...isn't someone suppose to be making a list or something??

[Cornell Fiji]

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Can you honestly tell me that you follow every single tradition to the T? Keeping kosher, no premarital sex, etc... To me it's more important to be a good person in everyday life than follow a prescribed list of rules written thousands of years ago. But that's just me.

As you can tell I'm not horribly religious.

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Correct me if I am wrong but I thought you were implying that jews are against premarital sex but as far as I know they have no problem with it.

Also, the false duplicity in your argument (that one could be bad all year long and fast or that someone could be good all year) is ridiculous. I believe that fasting is to atone for your sins and because Jews are a lawyerly people they have filled the loophole that you should also atone for sins that others have made (in prayr you apologize for "the sins that I have committed before thee" and you apologize for even the sins that you personally have not committed)

Even for non-observent Jews I like the tradition of fasting as it gives people cause to think about things that they have done right and wrong over the past year (you are supposed to apologize to others who you have wronged over the past year) and to think about if they want to live their lives differently in the coming year.

That introspective viewpoint that fasting encourages should have a positive effect on ones quality of life.

Note: Please correct any factual inaccuracies in my above statements.

[TheBlueMonster]

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I fasted as I have every year since I was 11.

However, I am on post-surgery medication that I am required to take every morning so I had a sip of water to swallow the pill, which is the first time I have had water during Yom Kippur in 27 years.

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IIRC, aren't the sick exempt from fasting? It's been awhile since religious school so I don't remember exactly.

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I think you're not exempt unless you're a certain amount of months pregnant...
If you're sick a rabbi will tell you how much to eat/drink and at what intervals.

[Mel Gibson]

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I had nothing to atone for.

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Killing Jesus?

[candyman718]

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I had nothing to atone for.

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Killing Jesus?

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Wasn't me. I was gambling at dreidel games at the time. That was before Pontius Pilot outlawed them.