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# It is a mitzvah to eat and drink on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] and one should even lessen one's learning and work in order to eat more on [[Erev Yom Kippur]].<ref>S"A 604:1 from gemara [[Berachot]] 8b and [[Rosh Hashana]] 9a, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:1), Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 448, #21) , Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 230</ref> It is forbidden to fast on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Rama 604:1, Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 74, Beit Yosef 604 </ref> | # It is a mitzvah to eat and drink on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] and one should even lessen one's learning and work in order to eat more on [[Erev Yom Kippur]].<ref>Tur and S"A 604:1 from gemara [[Berachot]] 8b and [[Rosh Hashana]] 9a, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:1), Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 448, #21) , Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 230, Ketav Sofer 112, Sh"t Rivivot Ephraim 3:410:2<br /> | ||
# This mitzvah primarily applies during the day of [[Erev Yom Kippur]] and not the night of [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:2), Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #13), Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 230 </ref> | * Rosh Yoma 8:22 writes that this is in order to prepare for the fasting on Yom Kippur itself. Ritva Rosh Hashana 9a and Tur 604 agree. | ||
* Shibbolei Haleket 307 writes that by eating a lot on the 9th, it makes it harder to fast on the 10th | |||
</ref> It is forbidden to fast on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Rama 604:1, Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 74, Beit Yosef 604 </ref> | |||
# This mitzvah primarily applies during the day of [[Erev Yom Kippur]] and not the night of [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:2), Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #13), Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 230, Aruch Hashulchan 604:5, Moed Likol Chai 16:14 </ref> | |||
# Preferably one should eat at least one bread meal on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:3), Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 446, #11) </ref> | # Preferably one should eat at least one bread meal on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:3), Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 446, #11) </ref> | ||
# This mitzvah to eat on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] applies to women also. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg. 74), Sh"t Yabia Omer 1:37, Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:58, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 231, Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #15). Rabbi Akiva Eiger 16 raises a doubt whether women should be obligated because it could be that is a mitzvat aseh shehazman grama | # This mitzvah to eat on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] applies to women also. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg. 74), Sh"t Yabia Omer 1:37, Sh"t Yechave Daat 1:58, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 231, Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #15). Rabbi Akiva Eiger 16 raises a doubt whether women should be obligated because it could be that is a mitzvat aseh shehazman grama. The other possibility that he raises is that maybe it's connected to the mitzva to fast which women are also obligated in. </ref> | ||
# One should only eat light foods so that one shouldn't be stuffed and prideful during [[prayers]] of Yom Kippur. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 446, #11), Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 86, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 239, Orchot Chaim Hilchot Erev Yom Hakippurim:8, based on the gemara Yoma 18a </ref> | # One should only eat light foods so that one shouldn't be stuffed and prideful during [[prayers]] of Yom Kippur. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 446, #11), Yalkut Yosef Moadim pg. 86, Chazon Ovadia Yamim Noraim pg. 239, Orchot Chaim Hilchot Erev Yom Hakippurim:8, based on the gemara Yoma 18a </ref> | ||
# 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. <ref>Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #17)</ref> | # 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. <ref>Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #17)</ref> | ||
# Someone who can't fast on Yom Kippur (because of serious health issues) should still eat on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #16)</ref> | # Someone who can't fast on Yom Kippur (because of serious health issues) should still eat on [[Erev Yom Kippur]]. <ref>Maamar Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #16)<br /> | ||
* Ketav Sofer Siman 112 raises this issue and concludes that one should still eat. | |||
* On the other hand, the Netziv in Haamek Sheela Parashat Vizot Haberacha Sheilta 167:12 says that one would not have the obligation of eating on the 9th if he is not fasting on the 10th. </ref> | |||
# Some say that one should endeavor to continue to eat all day on [[Erev Yom Kippur]], while others say that the mitzvah is to have a nice meal. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/782120/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Inyonei_Yom_Hakippurim Rav Hershel Schachter in a shiur on Inyonei Yom Kippur (min 34-6)] quotes Rav Salanter as having had the minhag of having a sucking candy on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] so as to continue eating on [[Erev Yom Kippur]], whereas Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik held that the primary mitzvah of the day was to have a nice meal.</ref> | # Some say that one should endeavor to continue to eat all day on [[Erev Yom Kippur]], while others say that the mitzvah is to have a nice meal. <ref>[http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/782120/Rabbi_Hershel_Schachter/Inyonei_Yom_Hakippurim Rav Hershel Schachter in a shiur on Inyonei Yom Kippur (min 34-6)] quotes Rav Salanter as having had the minhag of having a sucking candy on [[Erev Yom Kippur]] so as to continue eating on [[Erev Yom Kippur]], whereas Rav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik held that the primary mitzvah of the day was to have a nice meal.</ref> | ||
