Musings:The Meaning of Fasting

IT’S interesting to observe how during the fasting month, rather than focus on the benefits of restraint and doing without, the tendency if anything is to obsess more about food. It is as if those daylight hours passed without food and water are the desert one must cross before reaching that oasis of bountiful feast and indulgence. There is of course nothing wrong with stuffing ourselves with sweet delights that w