I wanted to thank you for posting this today of all days. Since I have a borderline eating disorder, my Rabbi told me that I am not aloud to fast. Even though I’m eating, its been a hard day because growing up you were always taught you had to fast, so now that you can’t you feel like your getting a thousand averious. I keep feeling guilty and keep trying to fast, but I keep having to remind myself that I AM SUPPOSED TO EAT!! Its dangerous for me to fast. What makes this even harder is that I work in a Jewish office and I have the reputation of being the frum one, no one else is fasting, because they don’t take the day seriously enough and if they see me eating it will just reinforce the fact that your right, this day is no biggie…Who ever said eating on a fast day is easier than fasting is wrong!!
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