38 Fasts in Judaism | Lecture by Harav Asher Weiss Shlit"a

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so bem this has been a very hectic week came into America last week Sunday morning in LA and uh Brooklyn spent the shabas and deal just got into Lakewood and Bor great [Music] so for the past few years since Co struck I've been giving a virtual to Thea under the offices of my dear friend at avadis men but once a year we have the opportunity to say this year in public so tonight is a and we are in the midst of the three weeks starting with CH culminating with the tragic day of Tish so the topic we will be discussing today could be defined as fast days and I remember when I first wrote this cont many years ago I had 18 sources so the POS which I wrote on the top of the is went over the Su I was up to [Music] 26 sometime later I was up to 33 so I changed the to sometimes later was 36 and the P was today we're up to 38 I don't have a PK I'm open for suggestions maybe someone will come up with an appropriate PK but the PK is not that important what's important is the sugya so if time will allow we will touch upon many many sources maybe we'll need to skip some but we could break down all these 38 you made some fast days into four categories foras which are manifested by fasting by Tanis chuo Aus Ritu and Z these are the four fundamental aoras and each and every one of the many fits into one of these fouras we start with Chua because it is the most common and we have 20 sources in which we fast in Shu and we hope to be which is repentance and atonement there is only one so we fast [Music] to stress our

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1. 0:00so bem this has been a very hectic week came into America last week Sunday morning…
2. 4:47because it's but we can't fast because it's a and that is why we fast on…
3. 9:30the of according to should be what does it have to do with and that is…
4. 14:54entire concept of tun CH that we find in r and in many many sources all…
5. 19:42about and that is why if it's so he's from and why does the need to…
6. 25:27wres ra is referring to yes and the writes but on the other hand that is…
7. 30:16should not fast on my learn more but originally in the days of theor it was…
8. 35:13is as we learn a b p good B when a son was desperately ill he…
9. 40:31and according to you're not allowed to be the source I quoted before [Music] wres that's…
10. 45:29WR and the explains they fasted and we fast so yes fundamentally it's we thank but…

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