42 – According to what my husband told me, a person who doesn’t fast on Taanis Esther for whatever reason – sick, pregnant, nursing, etc, has to be mashlim the fast at a time when they are not in that matzav. Obviously if the psak is that women are weak (I think Dayan Fisher ztzvk”l gave such a psak in EY) then they will basically never mashlim the fasts that they missed, but I think the idea is that it’s not exactly like the other fasts zecher le’churban (Tzom Gedalyah, 17 Tammuz and Asara b’Teves).
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