This is the Baimal podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm is co-host Bram Billings. Today I'm with Elgro

Refrix to traverse the topic of fasting. I sure am. I warned you ahead of time that we are going

to talk about this. So now here we are fasting. And how do you say it in Hebrew?

Zoom. Which makes it even more alliterative, which is apparently your primary goal.

The real marker of holiness is definitely by that how many alliterations you can pull off.

But yeah, so there's a lot of conversation out there in the Christian space about different

kinds of fasting. Lots of people do fasting from sugar or from Netflix or whatever or phones

and all that is great. And I'm not saying that it's not. I love deeply what Reed had to say about

that on his episode. But I want to talk about strictly biblical fasting. How is it being used?

What's the point? What's the goal? What does it look like? And just a couple of things before

you jump into that. If you are a kid or you're underweight, if you're expecting or breastfeeding,

if you're diabetic, if you have heart conditions, if you experience body dysmorphia, you have a

history of eating disorders. Any of the above, please consider other ways of engaging your spiritual

walk, right? Especially the last two things listed there have big potential to gum up your

experience and at worst, you know, kick off a recurrence. So we care about everybody's well-being.

Feel free to even turn off the episode, you know, if hearing about restricted eating is going to

be tricky for you. But fasting is a way of launching out into the deep Richard Foster says,

perhaps somewhere in the subterranean chambers of your life, you have heard the call to deeper,

fuller living, perhaps you have become weary of frothy experiences and shallow teaching.

Every now and then, you have got glimpses, hints of something more than you have known,

inwardly, you have long to launch out into the deep. And so it's a practice that I like to talk

about because I don't think it's talked about enough. Okay, I have a few questions. Sure. Is it possible

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