Yom Kippur: The Mitzvah of Eating on the Ninth

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

Why does eating on Erev Yom Kippur count as if we fasted? The sefer read ties the fast of Yom Kippur to fixing the eating of Adam HaRishon, the root of every aveira. Eating only because it is ratzon Hashem is a suffering for the nefesh and an even higher fix than refraining. On Succos the sukkah and the daled minim surround a Yid with kedusha, and what we gain in Tishrei carries through the whole year.

Key points

• The Gemara counts eating on the ninth as if one fasted the ninth and tenth.
• In the sefer read, the Yom Kippur fast repairs Adam HaRishon's chet, the root of all aveiros.
• Changing eating into a mitzvah, is'hapcha, is higher than holding back, iskafya, says the sefer read.
• The sefer read links kreplach on three days to the man, covered above and below.
• Sitting in the sukkah surrounds a person with the kedusha of the ananei hakavod.

In this shiur

1. 0:00Mitzvah of eating on Erev Yom Kippur
2. 1:44Kreplach on three days
3. 3:42Fasting and Adam HaRishon's chet
4. 8:04Iskafya and is'hapcha
5. 18:42Kreplach and the man
6. 25:15The fish bought for Erev Yom Kippur
7. 28:43The kedusha of Yom Kippur itself
8. 34:59Vidui, charata and simcha
9. 37:33The sukkah and the ananei hakavod
10. 42:21Daled minim and the Shem Hashem
11. 49:55Taking Tishrei into the whole year

Topics

• Erev Yom Kippur
• Yom Kippur
• Succos
• Daled Minim