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# If Erev Yom Kippur is the Yahrzeit (annual remembrance of the day of the death) of one's parents, one should fast but rely on the fast of Yom Kippur. <ref>Maamer 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 fast but rely on the fast of Yom Kippur. <ref>Maamer 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>Maamer 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>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #16)</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 Slanater 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 Soloveitchik held that the primary mitzvah of the day was to have a nice meal.</ref> | |||
===Pills to ease the fast=== | ===Pills to ease the fast=== | ||
# It is permissible to take a pill before Yom Kippur which will ease the difficulty of fasting. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 448, #20)</ref> | # It is permissible to take a pill before Yom Kippur which will ease the difficulty of fasting. <ref>Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 448, #20)</ref> However, others write that one should refrain from such pills except for a person who will be in great pain, have a headache, or the like from fasting on Yom Kippur.<ref>Yabea Omer 9:54</ref> | ||
===Prayers=== | ===Prayers=== | ||
# There's is no Tachanun on Erev Yom Kippur. <ref>S"A 604:2. Kaf HaChaim 604:18 points out that one does say Tachanun at Mincha before Erev Yom Kippur. </ref> | # There's is no Tachanun on Erev Yom Kippur. <ref>S"A 604:2. Kaf HaChaim 604:18 points out that one does say Tachanun at Mincha before Erev Yom Kippur. </ref> |