Observances
Adding a degree of festivity to the day as a practice has further been codified in Ashkenazic communities, as the Rema has stated in his notes on the Orach Chaim, “And we have the custom to eat and drink a little more on the day after the holiday - and that is the day known as "bind the festival."” The Chofetz Chaim has ruled that the minhag (custom) is to generally forbid fasting on Isru Chag, except in instances when as a result of great distress the community synagogue decrees it.
Almost all communities omit Tachanun on Isru Chag. However, communities that follow Maimonides' rulings, such as the Dor Daim, maintain that the only days on which Tachanun is to be omitted are Shabbat, Yom Tov, Rosh HaShana, Rosh Chodesh, Chanukah, Purim, and the Mincha before Shabbat and Yom Tov.
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