Fasting: The First Principle of Medicine

We will be gathering this morning on the last day of Ramadan. A major component of this Islamic observance is the practice of fasting. In fact, every faith tradition has fasting as a core component to perceiving the divine. For those of us who grew up with the admonition “clean your plateā€, this religious practice can seem non-intuitive at first. What can we learn about ourselves and the divine while we consciously abstain from food? Join us today as we explore the biological as well as the spiritual dimensions of fasting.