Better To Suffer or Better To Live? Eating—and Not Eating—as a Meritorious ... - Tablet Magazine

Better To Suffer or Better To Live? Eating—and Not Eating—as a Meritorious ... Tablet Magazine Is fasting a meritorious act? You might expect that a Talmudic tractate called Ta'anit, after the Hebrew word for fast day, would be unequivocal on the subject. The whole point of the tractate is that at times of trouble—in particular, when the rain ...