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Fasting and its spirituality

Fasting is not just a bodily virtue… It is not just abstaining from food for a period of time then not eating food with animal fat. There is a spiritual element in it…

The first spiritual element is controlling the will. With the same will that regulated food, one can command one’s talking by not using unsuitable expressions, as well as controlling thoughts and feelings. Mar Isaac said: “Abstinence of the tongue is better than abstinence of the mouth; and abstinence of the heart is better than both.”

The second element in the spiritual fast is repentance:

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