| 41. | The Tenth of Tevet is the only minor fast day that can coincide with Friday in the current Jewish calendar.
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| 42. | Married couples also abstain from sexual activity on fast days so that they may devote themselves fulsomely to prayer ( ).
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| 43. | Sephardic Jews do not recite Avinu Malkeinu on fast days ( except those that fall in the days of Penitence ).
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| 44. | In some countries there is a tradition of meatless borscht for fast days, and even a variation that uses fried fish.
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| 45. | The Jewish community of Frankfurt set the date of the fire ( 24 Tevet ) as a memorial and fast day.
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| 46. | Ingenious structures and materials are used to protect the passengers and hunters build small sleek versions to permit fast day trips.
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| 47. | Of course, Orthodox Jews take the fast day seriously, but at Kutsher's it was " A Night in the Caribbean ."
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| 48. | In addition, most Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year are fast days and many monasteries also observe Monday as a fast day.
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| 49. | As on all minor fast days, fasting from dawn to dusk is required, but other laws of mourning are not normally observed.
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| 50. | Travellers going on journeys of more than 50 miles may eat in daytime, but must make up the fast day later on.
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