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# If [[mincha]] went past sunset, [[birkat kohanim]] may still be recited within thirteen and a half minutes but not after that. <ref> Yechave Daat 6:40 </ref> | # If [[mincha]] went past sunset, [[birkat kohanim]] may still be recited within thirteen and a half minutes but not after that. <ref> Yechave Daat 6:40 </ref> | ||
==Individual Fast Days== | |||
# Fasting for the purpose of teshuva or receive atonement, is an important mitzvah.<ref>The Gemara Brachot 17a records that Rav Sheshet would pray before Hashem that today when there's no Bet Hamikdash He should accept our fasts as though they were korbanot since by fasting a person loses a slight amount of his flesh and blood in order to attain atonement. Gemara Brachot 6b indicates that fasting is certainly a mitvzah, yet giving charity is a crucial element of the fast day.</ref> | |||
# Nonetheless, a person shouldn't accept upon himself fast unless he is capable of fasting and will not minimize his performance of mitzvot because of it. <ref>Biur Halacha</ref> If a person does fast he shouldn't publicize it to others in order to receive honor.<ref>S"A 565:6</ref> | |||
# If a person wants to fast he must accept it upon himself the day before.<ref>S"A 562:5</ref> The minhag is to accept the fast day at mincha the day before.<ref>S"A 562:6</ref> | |||
# For an individual fast day a person needs to fast until Tzet HaKochavim. <ref>S"A 562:1</ref> | |||
==Related Pages== | ==Related Pages== | ||
* [[Commemoration of the Destruction of the Temple]] ([[Zecher LeChurban]]) | * [[Commemoration of the Destruction of the Temple]] ([[Zecher LeChurban]]) | ||
