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To what extent are you observing Tisha B'Av

Following All the Laws & Customs
3 (30%)
Following Most of the Laws & Customs
2 (20%)
Following the Laws & Customs when I can
2 (20%)
Ignoring the Laws & Customs
2 (20%)
Did Not even Know it was Tisha B'Av
0 (0%)
Not Jewish
1 (10%)

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Voting closed: August 22, 2009, 07:15:21 PM

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Offline Maimonides

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Observing Tisha B'Av?
« on: July 23, 2009, 06:16:12 PM »
To what extent are you following the Laws & Customs of Tisha B'Av?


To see what they are check out this site.
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/144574/jewish/The-Nine-Days.htm

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Re: Observing Tisha B'Av?
« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2009, 06:41:23 PM »
I try to observe most of the laws of Tish B'Av... I try not to listen to music and I do not cut my hair or shave my beard {well I don't shave normally anyway}...

I certainly have begun to diminish my Simcha {Joy} as we are supposed to do at the beginning of Av...

I find it hard to avoid eating meat. But I will certainly do so in the immediate days before the 9th of Av...

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
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Re: Observing Tisha B'Av?
« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2009, 07:15:56 PM »
All of it.
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Re: Observing Tisha B'Av?
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2009, 10:17:26 AM »
I"m learning more stuff from my wife about not eating meat except for Shabbat..

Also going to try not to go in a body of water either during the pre-Tshbav period

Fasting i don't do..If I remember, I don't eat the first half of the day.

For me, Yom Kippur is the only day I can pull that off to fast.
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