Yahrzeit

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Fasting on the day of the Yahrzeit

  1. If Erev Yom Kippur is the Yahrzeit (annual remembrance of the day of the death) of one's parents, one should not fast but rely on the fast of Yom Kippur. [1]

Sources

  1. Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #17)