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The Orthodox Jewish Bible

ISA 58:5

5 Is such as this a tzom that I have chosen? Merely for adam to afflict his nefesh? To bow down his rosh like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and efer [(ashes)] under him? Wilt thou call this a tzom, and a yom ratzon [(a day of acceptance, an acceptable day)] unto Hashem?

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