Mareh Makom

Fasting

• Fasting: The art of abstention and the cost of recognition that never comes
  What happens when your art is precisely what no one can see?
  In recent decades, interest in professional fasting has declined significantly.
• Fasting: When suffering becomes a weapon more powerful than violence
  How can a hungry person defeat an armed empire?
  The goal of this type of fast is to persuade and not to coerce.
• Fasting broken: when does affliction become an empty act?
  Does God really want us to go hungry, or is he looking for something else entirely?
  Is this not the fast I choose - to loosen the chains of wickedness, to untie the bands of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free and to break every yoke...
• Fasting: The hunger that isn't hunger and the eating that never satisfies
  What happens when the body becomes a language written in pain?
  He explained to me that hunger is something you feel in the stomach, a real ache of emptiness, while the desire to eat is just boredom of the mouth.
• Fasting: when letting go becomes power and freedom is found in little
  What if the way to hold the world is to give up everything in it?
  The entire world is sustained for the sake of My son Hanina,