{"id":484,"date":"2020-03-25T15:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T19:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/?p=484"},"modified":"2020-03-30T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T20:05:13","slug":"do-not-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/2020\/03\/25\/do-not-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaad HaRabbonim Of Baltimore: Do NOT Fast Today Even If You Made A Kabbalas Taanis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Baltimore Jewish Life Newsroom, March 25<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer, President of the Vaad HaRabbonim of Baltimore, explains that any one who made a kabalah yesterday to fast today, whether a half day or whole, should&nbsp;<strong>not<\/strong>&nbsp;fast due to the Coronavirus situation and the obligation upon everyone to maintain their strength and health. The kabala is considered a&nbsp;<em>kabala bi&#8217;taus<\/em>, a mistaken acceptance, as it was based on those who did not accurately translate or understand the letter from Rav Chaim, Shlita.<\/p>\n<p>The main mission now is Teshuva and Tefila, and not through fasting.<\/p>\n<p>May Hashem hear our Tefilos and bring Yeshuos to all of us.<\/p>\n<p>For further understanding see the letter, below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/files\/2020\/03\/Lakewood-fasting.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Letter by the Badatz of Lakewood, NJ, forbidding fasting on March 25 (an optional fast day)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore Jewish Life Newsroom, March 25 Rabbi Yaakov Hopfer, President of the Vaad HaRabbonim of Baltimore, explains that any one who made a kabalah yesterday to fast today, whether a half day or whole, should&nbsp;not&nbsp;fast due to the Coronavirus situation and the obligation upon everyone to maintain their strength and health. The kabala is considered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7681],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/coronaguidance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}