Tomorrow we fast. The Tisha be Av fast is less severe than the Yom Kippur fast. We dont learn Torah, we sit on low stools or on the floor, we go shoeless, we sing lamentations and fast 25 hours. By now I am so used to fasting that I shall make it two days.
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The 9 Av fast is considered the most difficult of the year, because the weather is hotter than on Yom Kippur and because the clocks haven't been changed yet, so more of the 25 hours is in the day, rather than the night before.
No doubt, Genius, it is hot. Very hot. I just boiled my daily 200 gr fish and let it cool on the table. Then my anxious clients occupied my mind and only when the telephones stopped ringing for a second, I could sit down and devour my fishy. The fish had no consistency, it was almost liquid. Only after I finished it (I am taking about split seconds) I woke up to the fact that it smelled terribly and hundreds of flies were pouring in from Kever Benjamin City's main street. To make it short, the fish was totally rotten. I sat down awaiting instant death or poisoning.
Bored, I read the article in HaAretz about a film the Nazis made in 1942 in the Warshaw ghetto. Just what I needed. I was about to recite the Shema but nothing seems to be happening to me. It is now 1420 and if I stop blogging, you know why. Since apparently I keep blogging nonsense as always, the rotten fish did not kill me but made me fatter. Drink water.
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