Enhance your prayer life, enhance your spiritual growth, develop self-discipline, and improve your health, all at the same time! This teaching about fasting gears us up for the Forty Days of Repentance. Based on a text in parashat Ekev, we take a look at fasting not only as a spiritual discipline but also at as a source of physical benefits for health and longevity. 

Here are some useful links about the health benfits of Intermittent Fasting and OMAD (One Meal a Day).

• Time Magazine: What Is Intermittent Fasting And Is It Actually Good For You? 


• Healthline: Intermittent Fasting 101


• The Beginner’s Guide to Intermittent Fasting 


• One Meal a Day Diet


• Delay, Don’t Deny