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Sam2
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We will all be eating on the ninth and B’ezras Hashem the tenth as well this year.

(Eating on Tishah B’av is no joking matter, by the way. I once had to tell someone to eat on Tishah B’av. I received a phone call from someone whose husband was very pale and almost fainted. None of the doctors she called understood the situation and why he couldn’t eat. None of the Poskim I usually call for such issues answered their phone within the first five minutes of me receiving the call. With the woman getting frantic and her husband becoming incoherent on a hot day, I was forced to tell her to make him drink. It is the single hardest P’sak I’ve ever had to give (I’ve told people on a few separate occasions to be Mechallel Shabbos but those were unquestionable Pikuach Nefesh cases so I had no issue whatsoever running to a phone or telling someone to run to a phone to call 911). I was physically ill from telling someone to drink and I couldn’t even learn over things just to make sure I did the right thing. I had no appetite whatsoever for the next day and decided to fast Yud as well in case I was wrong (I did drink a lot of water Leil Yud though). So no, eating on Tishah B’av is no joking matter at all. At least not to me.