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# It’s customary to give [[Tzedaka]] at [[Mincha]] on a fast day, the value of the amount of food one would have eaten that day. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 566:12 </ref> | # It’s customary to give [[Tzedaka]] at [[Mincha]] on a fast day, the value of the amount of food one would have eaten that day. <Ref> Mishna Brurah 566:12 </ref> | ||
====Doing Teshuva==== | ====Doing Teshuva==== | ||
# The primary purpose of the Fast days is to inspire a person to do | # The primary purpose of the Fast days is to inspire a person to do Teshuva and remember his sins and the sins of our fathers which caused the tragedy which is being commemorated to occur. Thus, a person should should make time on a fast day to think about one's actions and do Teshuva. Those people who take walks and do other activities which are a waste of time when they are fasting have missed a major point of the fast. Nonetheless, one may not exempt oneself with only doing Teshuva because fasting on these days is a Mitzvah MeDivrei HaNevim. <Ref>Mishna Brurah 549:1</ref> | ||
====Birkat Kohanim==== | ====Birkat Kohanim==== | ||
# A kohen who is not fasting, should not go up for [[birkat kohanim]] during [[mincha]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 551 </ref> | # A kohen who is not fasting, should not go up for [[birkat kohanim]] during [[mincha]]. <ref> Yalkut Yosef Moadim page 551 </ref> | ||
