Parents Requesting Food on a Fast Day
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Question
If the parents are secular and there is a fast, such as Tisha B'Av or the 17th of Tammuz, and the parents ask me for food, what should I do? Or if they ask me for coffee, what should I do?
Answer
You may serve them the food or coffee.
Source
According to the instructions of the Gaon, Rabbi Fried, shlita
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