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Yom Kippur: Tips for Easier Fasting

As Jewish people around the world prepare for Yom Kippur, Arutz Sheva brings you some tips on how to prepare for the 25-hour fast.

As Jewish people in Israel and around the world are preparing for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, Arutz Sheva brings you some tips on how to prepare for the 25-hour fast, which begins at sundown on Tuesday evening and ends on Wednesday evening:

1. It is recommended to drink at least two liters of water a day (10 cups) on the days before the fast

2. Eat whole grains before the fast, as whole grains provide us with more energy over longer periods of time.

3. Avoid sugar and fruits. Sugar highs and lows can cause headaches and the body also requires extra fluid to remove the sugar from the system.

4. Eat a lot of vegetables. Vegetables are a great source of both energy and fluid.

5. Those who drink significant amounts of beverages containing caffeine daily (coffee, non-herb teas, colas) are advised to reduce the amount gradually, starting several days before the fast to prevent caffeine addiction symptoms which can include headaches and nausea.

6. The last meal before the fast, known as the seudah hamafseket, should not include unfamiliar, spicy, or fried foods, and should omit vegetables such as cauliflower, cabbage and broccoli.

7. After the fast, those who have abstained from drinking and eating are advised to rehydrate slowly, with a sweet drink, and begin eating with a snack, followed approximately one hour later by a light meal.

8. Foods like bagels, lox, and cream cheese are standard for the meal which breaks the fast, but it is recommended to try instead to open the meal with a light vegetable soup.

A great soup to eat after fasting is miso soup. This is not only because Japanese tradition holds that miso promotes long life and good health, but also because miso is a live food that contains lactobacillus, (the same as in yogurt) which helps in the digestion and assimilation of food.

Another bonus to eating miso soup after the fast is that on the purely practical level, it is quick. Prepare the vegetables before the fast and then just add the boiling water and miso after the fast is over. The soup requires only two minutes of cooking time so it will be ready to serve by the time the men come home from shul.

Note: The soup calls for kombu. Kombu is a seaweed, that like all seaweeds, is high in vitamins and minerals. Kombu is not an essential ingredient and the soup is tasty (some might say even more so) without it. Look for miso and kombube either in health food stores or in the health food sections of your local market.

Ingredients:

1. 1 tsp sesame oil

2. 1 carrot, diced

3. 1 leek, diced

4. 1 cup mung bean sprouts

5. 1 small piece of kombu (optional)

6. 4 cups water or dashi (Japanese soup stock)

7. 2-3 tbsp miso paste

8. 2 scallions, sliced on angle, for garnish

9. soy sauce, to taste

10. Saute the vegetable, add the water/stock and bring to a boil. Simmer for two minutes. Remove from the flame, cream the miso in a little bit of the broth and return to the soup. Use the soy sauce to adjust the flavor, garnish with scallions and serve. Serves 4-6

No problem 🙂

popa_bar_abba wrote:

I had a friend in yeshiva who was machmir to date 70 girls on sukkos, as a zecher for the musafin of sukkos.

That would only apply if they were all “one cow girls”

(http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/johhny-lingos-8-cow-wife)

To be continued here:

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/coffeeroom/topic/eating-in-sukkah-on-shemini-atzeres

(or next year in another new thread)

How about crisii 🙂

I heard that the whole “minhag” not to eat in the sukka on Shmini Atzeres started in places where it was really cold so they were very meikel about it. People saw the Rebbe/Rav go inside and assumed that that was the minhag.

Ceiling fans in your sukka can help keep away many flying bugs, especially the ones that hang out by the schach and then come down when there is food.

In another thread somebody mentioned something about spraying garlic water or something.

Amen! Mazel tov!

Why is it that the congregation always says zachreinu and mi chamocha before the chazan except during chazaras hashatz of shachris and mussaf of R”H and Y”K as well as Neila where the Artscroll says that only the chazan says it (although most modern shuls will sing along anyway, I always wondered if this is a hefsek in shofar)

Let’s all move to Vegas. I bet that would solve most of these problems.

Is using withered aravos a segula for the Arabs to wither?

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Was there an age gap between the 1 and the 10,000? 🙂

We leave the dates and pomegranates in the kitchen until after the apple.

10/10!

I will be talking during laining this year, hopefully loud enough for all to hear.

I am the Razaac.

Is Joseph a fungus?

I’ll stay off the sidewalks.

It was probly a talmid of the joseph camp who is very makpid on al tarbeh sicha im haisha, b’ishto amru, kal v’chomer b’shiducho.

Is the CR a maase satan?

Is Joseph, Malach Hamaves, and popa_bar-abba all the same being with different screennnames?

Does Joseph have bechira chofshis to leave the CR? How about popa?

What’s a WAT poster?

So the children will ask.

That’s actually one thing I sort of miss since I started using Artscroll Interlinear. It is harder to find the place because all font is the same and pparagraphs sort of run into each other. I liked the regular Artscroll machzorim that had smaller font for piyutim that some skip but I still use interlinear for the translation.

“Who orders paper towels online?”

People order pretty much everything under the sun online. With Amazon Prime free shipping, why not? Especially in NY where there is no parking why would you want to buy things in person?