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El ayuno extremo: ¿es pecado según el judaísmo?
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No, El ayuno extremo se considera Disputado / matizado en el judaísmo.
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No, El ayuno extremo se considera Disputado / matizado en el judaísmo. Talmud, Ta'anit 11b — One who fasts continually is called a sinner, like the Nazirite.
Lo que el judaísmo enseña sobre El ayuno extremo
Según el judaísmo, El ayuno extremo se considera Disputado / matizado.
El veredicto del Talmud es sorprendentemente directo: quien acepta ayunos excesivos continuamente es llamado pecador (Ta'anit 11b, siguiendo la lógica del nazareo). Los ayunos tienen forma sancionada —comunal y personal, con exenciones de salud— y los votos de privación extrema pueden liberarse. El ayuno por trastorno alimentario se trata como enfermedad que requiere cuidado y, de necesitarse, alimentación forzada bajo pikuach nefesh.
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Lo que el judaísmo enseña sobre El ayuno extremo
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Judaism's Talmud delivered perhaps the bluntest verdict available on extreme fasting: the one who takes on excessive fasts continually is 'called a sinner' (Ta'anit 11b) — the same category the Torah applies to the Nazirite, whose asceticism, though biblical, was read as a sin needing atonement because it denied God's gifts without command. The framework: fasting has halakhic form — Yom Kippur (one day, with illness exemptions commanded), Tisha B'Av and fast days (from dawn, bounded), and personal fasts (ta'anit yachid) permitted with caveats: not on joyous days, not to the impairment of Torah study, and subject to release. The vows logic completes it: halakha provides hatarat nedarim, annulment of vows, and a vow of self-deprivation that exceeds health or reason is precisely the kind the rabbis released. The modern application is medical as much as halakhic: poskim treat anorexia-religious-fusion cases as pikuach nefesh — treatment overrides everything, and force-feeding a fasting eating-disorder patient has rabbinic sanction. The tradition's own ideals point the same way: Shabbat's mandated delights (three meals, joy) institutionalize the opposite of deprivation-culture, and 'choose life' (Deuteronomy 30:19) is the summary command.
Referencias Torá / Talmud
- Talmud, Ta'anit 11b — One who fasts continually is called a sinner, like the Nazirite.
- Deuteronomy 4:9 — 'Take care... keep your soul diligently.'
- Talmud, Yoma 85b — Pikuach nefesh overrides even Yom Kippur — life outranks fasting.
Qué deberías hacer
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- Follow your tradition's forms, not internet extremity — the forms are bounded for a reason.
- Exempt yourself when health requires — in Islam and Judaism, exemption is a command, not a concession.
- Jewish: Remember Ta'anit 11b — excessive fasting is called sin; vows of deprivation can be released.
- All: If fasting has become compulsion or weight-control in disguise, seek help — that is illness, and treatment is the religious act.
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Is prolonged water fasting a sin?
Extended fasts beyond medical supervision are condemned across the traditions: bounded fasts are prescribed, excessive fasting is called sin, and reasonable care of the body is required.
Extended fasts beyond medical supervision are condemned across the traditions: bounded fasts are prescribed, excessive fasting is called sin, and reasonable care of the body is required. Brief supervised fasts for medical indications are a different matter — treatment, not devotion.
Why did saints fast so extremely then?
The traditions read those accounts critically: hagiography emphasizes the extraordinary, and the same traditions' authorities — abbots, jurists, ulema — consistently corrected extremity in practice; the heroes are admired; the extremity is not the rule for everyone.
The traditions read those accounts critically: hagiography emphasizes the extraordinary, and the same traditions' authorities — abbots, jurists, ulema — consistently corrected extremity in practice; the heroes are admired; the extremity is not the rule for everyone. Judaism's Talmud ruled excessive fasting sinful.
I have an eating disorder and religious fasting makes it worse — what do I do?
All the traditions here exempt you — actually command you to abstain from fasting and accept treatment.
All the traditions here exempt you — actually command you to abstain from fasting and accept treatment. Tell your rabbi, imam, or priest and your treatment team. Choosing recovery is the religious act, not the fast.
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