Sunday, August 14, 2005

Fasting always makes me cold

Even if it's warm outside. Which it isn't today, by the looks of it (all rainy and bleugh it would appear). Anyway, today is the ninth of Av, the day on which both temples were destroyed (obviously in different years). So we fast for twenty-five hours, no food no drink. The one good thing this year is it ends a little earlier as we had an extra month due to it being a Jewish leap year, and so all the festivals etc are late when compared against the Gregorian calendar. The fast is still 25 hours, but you sleep the evening off (it started at 8.27pm yesterday) and then it's the main day bit that's normally a little harder. Anyway, goes out slightly earlier this year and it's not blisteringly hot either, which is always a bonus.

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