{"id":289,"date":"2013-03-05T16:23:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-03-05T16:23:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T00:23:42","slug":"holidays-and-holy-days-nineteen-day-fast-bahai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/2013\/03\/05\/holidays-and-holy-days-nineteen-day-fast-bahai\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays and Holy Days – Nineteen-Day Fast (Bah\u00e1’\u00ed)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious and spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu<\/a>\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office.<\/p>\n

March 2-20th, 2013 is the Nineteen-Day Fast of the\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed faith.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Context<\/strong><\/h3>\n

<\/strong>The Nineteen-Day Fast is one of the most important components of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed practice for individuals aged 15-70. \u00a0The fast lasts from sunrise to sunset and is meant to bring\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed’s closer to God through a physical and spiritual reinvigoration. Bah\u00e1’u’ll\u00e1h, founder of the\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed faith,\u00a0established the guidelines of the fast to occur during the last month of the\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed 19 month calendar. The fast is an individual obligation with exceptions for the ill, travelers, those outside of the age range of 15-70, pregnant or nursing women, and women who are menstruating (who are required to observe the practice in another way).<\/p>\n

Significance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Bah\u00e1’\u00ed faith, explains that “It is essentially a period of meditation and prayer, of spiritual recuperation, during which the believer must strive to make the necessary readjustments in his inner life, and to refresh and reinvigorate the spiritual forces latent in his soul. Its significance and purpose are, therefore, fundamentally spiritual in character. Fasting is symbolic, and a reminder of abstinence from selfish and carnal desires.”<\/p>\n

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Baha’i 19 Month Calendar<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Rituals\/Traditions<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The period of fasting begins with the end of the Intercalary Days and ends with the festival of Naw-Ruz (the\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed new year)<\/li>\n
  2. Fasting includes abstinence from food, drink and smoking from sunrise to sunset<\/li>\n
  3. Bah\u00e1’\u00ed’s rise early to eat protein, complex carbs, and\u00a0caffeine\u00a0to sustain them throughout the day<\/li>\n
  4. If someone accidentally eats during fasting hours, it is not considered breaking fast as it is an accident<\/li>\n
  5. In regions of high latitude, the times of the fast are fixed by the clock rather than by the sun schedule<\/li>\n
  6. Many\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed’s take this time to appreciate the simple things<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Additional Resources<\/strong><\/div>\n
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    Rainn Wilson offers his perspective on his Bah\u00e1’\u00ed Fasting practice\u00a0–\u00a0http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rainn-wilson\/bahai-fast-slowly_b_2811057.html<\/a><\/p>\n

    Facts about the 19 Day Fast –\u00a0http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nineteen_Day_Fast<\/a><\/p>\n

    A daily fasting blog –\u00a0http:\/\/nineteendays.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

    Brief summary of the fast –\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/bahai\/customs\/fasting.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This blogpost series is called Holidays and Holy Days to inform our OSU community about significant religious and spiritual observances.\u00a0 If you know of a significant holiday or holy day coming up, please communicate the information to Hannah Pynn\u00a0hannah.pynn@oregonstate.edu\u00a0in the Dean of Student Life office. March 2-20th, 2013 is the Nineteen-Day Fast of the\u00a0Bah\u00e1’\u00ed faith.… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,147691],"tags":[147690,128653,128966,145723,147692,129071,23,129259,37],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-holidays-and-holy-days-2","tag-holidays-and-holy-days","tag-dean-of-student-life","tag-dosl","tag-everyone-matters-osu","tag-hannah-pynn","tag-odosl","tag-oregon-state","tag-oregon-state-univerity","tag-osu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/deanofstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}