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I THINK THAT WE SHOULD FAST AND PRAY FOR THIS ELECTION!!!!!!
~Hanna~:
DAVID WON AGAINST GOLIAH!!!!!!!!!!!![/glow]
I am not ready to concede this election to the liberals, just yet....
I know some of you might think I am being too religious...but this is really important, it really is....!!!!!
I think we should all fast and pray and watch what happens in this election......!!!!
Remember David and Goliath????
It LOOKED hopeless, but David went out there and fought ANYWAY!!
He did NOT give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance:
Can I get an AMEN?????????
דוד בן זאב אריה:
I will fast on Jan 20th if that beast wins. It will be they day that ends America as we know it God Forbid 1000 times
muman613:
--- Quote from: ~Hanna~ on October 08, 2008, 12:04:35 AM ---DAVID WON AGAINST GOLIAH!!!!!!!!!!!![/glow]
I am not ready to concede this election to the liberals, just yet....
I know some of you might think I am being too religious...but this is really important, it really is....!!!!!
I think we should all fast and pray and watch what happens in this election......!!!!
Remember David and Goliath????
It LOOKED hopeless, but David went out there and fought ANYWAY!!
He did NOT give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance:
Can I get an AMEN?????????
--- End quote ---
Amen Hanna,
We are fasting for Yom Kippur this Thursday. What other day do you propose to be a fast day?
muman613
~Hanna~:
--- Quote from: muman613 on October 08, 2008, 12:14:21 AM ---
--- Quote from: ~Hanna~ on October 08, 2008, 12:04:35 AM ---DAVID WON AGAINST GOLIAH!!!!!!!!!!!![/glow]
I am not ready to concede this election to the liberals, just yet....
I know some of you might think I am being too religious...but this is really important, it really is....!!!!!
I think we should all fast and pray and watch what happens in this election......!!!!
Remember David and Goliath????
It LOOKED hopeless, but David went out there and fought ANYWAY!!
He did NOT give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :dance:
Can I get an AMEN?????????
--- End quote ---
Amen Hanna,
We are fasting for Yom Kippur this Thursday. What other day do you propose to be a fast day?
muman613
--- End quote ---
Hi Muman:
I am sitting here feeling that we should fast the day before the elections!!!!!
Yes, I think this would be good.......
WHAT DO YOU THINK??????
anyone else have an opinion here?????
Do you know what day that is by any chance????? :laugh:
muman613:
Hanna,
If the election is held on November 4th, then the 3rd would be the day before...
You are asking for the Fast on Monday, November 3rd.
I dont see a problem with it. Though I dont think we ordinarily should afflict ourselves there have been occasions where it annulled Hashems evil decree. The most obvious is during the story of Purim, read in the Megillah Esther.
From OU website:
http://www.ou.org/chagim/roshchodesh/adar/thirteenth.htm
On the 13th of Adar (this year, 5764, the 11th - see explanation below), the Fast of Esther is observed in commemoration of the Fast observed by Mordechai and Esther and all Israel. On that very day, the enemies of the Jews had planned to subjugate and destroy them. The opposite, however, occurred and the Jews ruled over their enemies.
The practice of fasting was observed by the people of Israel whenever they were faced by war. Thus Moshe Rabenu also fasted when he came to wage war against Amalek. The aim of the fast was to affirm that a man does not prevail by physical or military strength, but only by lifting his eyes heavenward in prayer so that Divine Mercy might give him the strength to prevail in battle. This then was the purpose of the fast observed by Israel at the time of Haman, when they gathered to defend themselves against those who sought to destroy them. And in memory of that Fast, a yearly Fast was fixed for generations on the same day. We are to recall thereby that G-d accepts each person's prayer and penitence in the hour of his trouble.
The acceptance of this Fast of the 13th of Adar on the part of Israel for later generations is alluded to in the Scroll of Esther: 'And as they accepted upon themselves and upon their children, the matters of their fastings and their cry' (Esther 9).
The Fast is called by the name of Esther because it was she who first requested the observance of a fast, of Mordechai: 'Go and gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan and fast over me, and do not eat and do not drink three days, night and day; and I and my maidens will also fast thus.' (ibid. 4)
The fast which we observe is nevertheless not observed for a three-day period, as was the case with the original Fast, nor is it observed on the same date. Originally the Fast was observed by Esther and the entire people of Israel on the 14th, 15th and 16th of Nisan, immediately after Mordechai was informed of Haman's decree and of the letter of annihilation which Haman wrote on the 13th of Nisan. Our Fast however, is observed on the 13th of Adar, in memory of the Fast observed by Israel on the day of their mobilization for war against the enemies. The Fast is nevertheless called by the name of Esther since it was she who first proposed its observance.
Others hold the view, that even our Fast is also primarily a commemoration of the original three-day Fast observed by the Jews when the decree was announced. But since the Fast could not be permanently fixed for later years in its proper time (because fasting is not permitted during Nisan), the Sages therefore fixed it for the 13th of Adar - which was also a Fast day for the Jews, who then gathered to wage war against their enemies. And although the Fast of Esther is therefore a memorial to the original three days of fasting, the Rabbis were nevertheless lenient in fixing it for only one day.
In deference to this view, there are some who fast an additional three days; on Monday, Thursday and Monday after Purim. Others voluntarily fast the night as well as the day on the 13th of Adar, since the original three-day Fast was observed night and day.
L-rd, deliver us; May the King answer us on the day we call!
Hashem Hoshea HaMelech Yananu BaYom Karanu!
muman613
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