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===Giving [[Tzedaka]]=== | ===Giving [[Tzedaka]]=== | ||
# 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, Chazon Ovadia Arba Taaniyot pg. 42. Gemara Berachot 6b writes that the reward for a fast day is from the tzedaka that one gives. </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, Chazon Ovadia Arba Taaniyot pg. 42. Gemara Berachot 6b writes that the reward for a fast day is from the tzedaka that one gives. <br> | ||
* Meil Tzedaka (435) writes in the name of Rabbi Yehuda Hachassid that תענית (fast day) and תת עני (give to the poor) have the same letters because the fast is only complete if you give tzedaka. </ref> | |||
===Doing Teshuva=== | ===Doing Teshuva=== | ||
