| 31. | In 1896, Fast Day was changed to the first Sunday of the month, instead of the first Thursday.
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| 32. | In the Spanish and Portuguese rite, the prayers are recited from the Book of Prayers for Fast Days.
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| 33. | Service leaders often wear a tallit even on normal days, and must wear one during the fast days.
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| 34. | Unlike all other Jewish fast days, only firstborns are required to fast on the Fast of the Firstborn.
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| 35. | Travelers, the sick, and women who are pregnant, nursing or menstruating are allowed to make up fast days later.
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| 36. | On a hard, fast day?
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| 37. | Thursday scores of settlers swayed there in prayer on a religious fast day that carried added significance for them.
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| 38. | Pre-Slim Fast days, of course.
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| 39. | When Tisha B'Av falls on a Shabbat, the fast day is postponed until Sunday ( the Tenth of Av ).
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| 40. | At court tensions over religion led Protestant servants to reportedly throw meat into wine on fast days to provoke Catholics.
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