https://ohr.edu/this_week/insights_into_halacha/9340
The custom of utilizing these specific days for prayer and supplication is already mentioned almost 900 years ago by the Baalei Tosafos, its importance reiterated by the Tur, and unbeknownst to many, actually codified in halacha by the Shulchan Aruch as a proper minhag.[4]
The Muslims make a big deal of how they have a month of fast days. We only have a few. But if you factor in Behab, erev Rosh Chodesh, Slichos and Yahrzeits, we pretty much have just as many.
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