Reply To: Eating on Erev Yom Kippur

jbaldy:

R’ Akiva Eiger’s first tzad is that it is a mitzvas asei shehazman grama and he points out that whether it’s an asmachta or a real derasha. I.e. he is pointing out that you shouldn’t think that there is no din of zman grama on an asmachta. The tzad that they are not patur is that the mitzvah is stated in terms of fasting on the ninth and the tenth in which case they are taluy zeh b’zeh.