He Ordered a Public Fast (גְּזַר תַּעֲנִית)
He Ordered a Public Fast (גְּזַר תַּעֲנִית)

He Ordered a Public Fast

He decided and established that the public shall be in a fast (fast meaning a complete abstinence from food, bodily affliction, or a kind of self-denial from human pleasures).

("And furthermore, they decreed a fast because wolves ate two infants across the Jordan. Rabbi Yosi says: Not because they ate, but because they were seen" - Taanit 19a. And similarly: "And this comes and prevents complete eating from the mouth, he decrees a fast upon" - Shalom Aleichem / A Man with a Liver, 38.)

Translation

Expression (Hebrew)

גְּזַר תַּעֲנִית

Definition (Hebrew)

הֶחְלִיט וְקָבַע כִּי הַצִּבּוּר יְהֵא שָׁרוּי בְּתַעֲנִית (תַּעֲנִית מַשְׁמָע צוֹם, עִנּוּי גּוּף אוֹ סוּג שֶׁל הַגְבָּלָה עַל הֲנָאוֹת הָאָדָם).

("וְעוֹד גָּזְרוּ תַּעֲנִית עַל שֶׁאָכְלוּ זְאֵבִים שְׁנֵי תִינוֹקוֹת בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן. רַבִּי יוֹסֵי אוֹמֵר: לֹא עַל שֶׁאָכְלוּ, אֶלָּא עַל שֶׁנִּרְאוּ"- תַּעֲנִית יט ע"א, וְכֵן:"וְזֶה בָּא וּמוֹנֵעַ אֹכֶל מִפִּי לַחֲלוּטִין, גּוֹזֵר תַּעֲנִית הוּא עֲלֵי"-שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם/ אָדָם בַּעַל קֵבָה, עח)

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