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==Erev Yom Kippur== | ==Erev Yom Kippur== | ||
===Eating on Erev Yom Tov=== | ===Eating on Erev Yom Tov=== | ||
# 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, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:1) </ref>It is forbidden to forbidden to fast on Erev Yom Kippur. <ref>Rama 604:1 </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>S"A 604:1, Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:1), Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 448, #21) </ref>It is forbidden to forbidden to fast on Erev Yom Kippur. <ref>Rama 604:1 </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) </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), Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #13) </ref> | ||
# Preferably one should eat at least one bread meal on Erev Yom Kippur. <ref>Yalkut Yosef (Kitzur S"A 604:3) </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) </ref> | # This mitzvah to eat on Erev Yom Kippur applies to women also. <Ref>Yalkut Yosef (Moadim pg 74), Maamer Mordechai (Rav Mordechai Eliyahu, English version pg 447, #15) </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)</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> | |||
===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> | |||
===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> | ||
