The True Purpose Of Fasting

in a Shulchan Aruch. A Shulchan Aruch we're going over last night with Ephraim and I. And in a section of Shulchan Aruch in Orach Chaim in siman tough kuf ain aleph which is siman that talks about people that have made sins. Now, part of their uh teshuvah is to fast. And the first halakha says, "Aishev b'taanit im yakhol lisbol taanit nikra kadosh." "V'im lav k'gon she'eino bari v'khazak nikra khotei." Someone that sits there fasting if he can suffer this, meaning he's able to sustain this suffering of fasting, then he's called holy, kadosh. But if not and in fact he becomes sick and he is not able to function, then his fast makes him a khotei, makes him a sinner. Why? The whole point of the fast is not to make you suffer to the point where you're not functioning, you're not able to pray, you're not able to have slom bayit, you're not able to work, you're not able to do anything. That's not the point of the fast.