When a communal fast is decreed for a specific trouble, must 'Vayehal' be read, and must the leader recite 'Anenu'?
Synopsis
There is a dispute: some authorities treat all community-declared fasts as full communal fasts (with 'Anenu' and 'Vayehal'), while others differentiate between fasts decreed for specific troubles (which are treated as lesser observances without these elements) and established fasts (with full communal status).
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