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Has anyone ever heard of fasting the day before Yom Kippur?



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midiskirts




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:47 am
Has anyone ever heard of a minhag to fast on the day before Yom Kippur (in addition to YK itself)?
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chili-n-cholent




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:48 am
Huh? Isn't it a mitzva to eat on erev yom kipur to specifically show that when hashem tells us to fast we fast and when not we don't?
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clowny




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:49 am
No.
Erev Yom Kippur is a mitzvah to eat.
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Blessing1




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:53 am
It's a mitzvah to eat erev yom kippur.
Where did you hear that it’s a minhag to fast? And how is it possible to fast 2 days in a row?
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:54 am
My husband fasts from after rosh hashana to yom kippur

He does not fast erev yom kipper though as it’s a special mitzvah to eat

(I’m not sure why he does this, I think he heard somewhere that it’s something special to do)
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:56 am
The day before YK is my favorite day. It is a mitzva to eat.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 9:03 am
The only place I’d imagine it would only maybe apply is if there is a dateline issue.
Like Japan, Hawaii or other locations. Some did this in Shanghai (but it was the day after not before).
Yom kipper is the only yom tov outside of eretz yosroel that is one day.
I’ve heard that there was an idea to fast 2 days for that reason. But it really isn’t done.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 9:04 am
Op are you perhaps referring to Yom kipper kuten?
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 9:42 am
I think I learned that if you eat on erev y”k it’s as If you fasted two day’s. Maybe that’s what you heard.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 9:53 am
כל האוכל בתשיעי ומתענה בעשירי כאילו התענה בתשיעי ובעשירי - one who eats on the 9th and fasts on the 10th, it is as if he fasted on the 9th and the 10th.

It is a mitzvah to EAT on Erev Yom Kippur. If anyone is doing otherwise, אל תהי צדיק הרבה!
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 9:54 am
Some people fast on the Aseres Yemei Teshuva.
I think I remember reading that Rabbi YY Herman did that.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 10:31 am
I'd never be able to!

I don't even fast on Tzom Gedalia because it leaves me feeling weak for YK fast.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 11:15 am
Some have a minhag to fast erev rosh hashana
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midiskirts




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 1:47 pm
OP here - I'd never heard of it before, I'd bedavka grown up (ffb ashkenaz right-wing modern orthodox) understanding it's a mitzvah to eat on Erev YK. A family member of mine encountered a young woman who said she had to fast on Erev YK and I was very confused, figured I'd poll the gantze imamother mishpocha!
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agreer




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 2:16 pm
I've heard of fasting during aseres yemai teshuva - usually till chatzos.
That's why we do slichos at least 4 days before R"H - because there are 4 days of AY"T where you MUST eat and can't fast: R"H (2 days), Shabbos, and Erev Yom Kippur. If one fasts on at least 4 days of slichos, then 6 days of AY"T, you got your 10 days.

But you are NOT HALACHICALLY ALLOWED to fast on Erev Y"K
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SuperWify




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 2:21 pm
amother [ Crimson ] wrote:
My husband fasts from after rosh hashana to Yom Kippur

He does not fast erev yom kipper though as it’s a special mitzvah to eat

(I’m not sure why he does this, I think he heard somewhere that it’s something special to do)


Wow! Holy stuff!!
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doodlesmom




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 2:43 pm
I learnt that eating erev Yom Kippur is like fasting, and that fasting 3 days in a row is a big segulah, so as a girl, I once fasted the day before erev Yom Kippur, so that it was counted as a 3 day fast.

Maybe thats what op means?
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Frumme




 
 
    
 

Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:13 pm
midiskirts wrote:
OP here - I'd never heard of it before, I'd bedavka grown up (ffb ashkenaz right-wing modern orthodox) understanding it's a mitzvah to eat on Erev YK. A family member of mine encountered a young woman who said she had to fast on Erev YK and I was very confused, figured I'd poll the gantze imamother mishpocha!


I have only heard something like that in the context of a Holocaust survivor... She was in hiding and didn't know the Hebrew date. Long story short, she discovered it was the 2nd day of RH and from that she calculated the day of YK. However she was young and didn't know if YK was 10 days after the 1st or 2nd day of RH. So she fasted for two days to make sure she got the right date.
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amother
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Post Tue, Apr 27 2021, 8:16 pm
I know a dayan who fasts two days yom Kippur but he eats erev yom Kippur.
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sequoia




 
 
    
 

Post Sun, Jun 27 2021, 1:59 pm
You cannot go without water that long. You will die.
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