Tag #120998 - Interview #102368 (Solomon Meir)

Or if it’s on a day of fasting – for we have around 4 or 5 fasts during the year – on Saturday, you postpone the fast until Sunday, for you aren’t allowed to fast on Saturday, save on the Great Day. For instance, this year [in 2007] Yom Kippur will be on a Saturday, and you fast on Saturday, you don’t postpone the fast until Sunday. These are the other fasts besides Yom Kippur: Sur Beteivis [Asarah be Tevet in Hebrew], Ester Tanas and Tisibov [Ta’anit Esther and Tishah BeAv in Hebrew]. Tisibov, which is held to mark the destruction of the first and second Temple, is a fast like Yom Kippur, in other words, Yom Kippur and Tisibov are 25-26 hours fasts. For all other fasts, during Sur Beteivis – 10 Tucan Teivis – and during Ester Tanas, before Purim, you fast during the day, meaning you are allowed to eat at night [after the sun sets].