What should be prepared in advance, who is exempt from fasting and how to pray individually?
• These are the laws and customs that you can do alone without a quorum
Prayer in the days of the Corona
Photography:
Oren Ben Hakon
Millions of Jews in Israel and around the world will mark Yom Kippur this coming Sunday, when it is customary to fast for 25 hours and participate in special prayers, subject to the instructions of the Corona.
This year, as mentioned, Yom Kippur will be held with strict restrictions, and thousands of people will pass the fast when they are in isolation.
These are the laws and customs that you can do alone without a quorum.
Prepare in advance:
a prayer book / cycle (preferably with a commentary), Psalms, a soul candle for the evening of Yom Kippur.
It is recommended that you print a note for confession on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Yom Kippur Eve:
There is a mitzvah to eat to prepare for fasting and also to rejoice in the remission of sins.
It is customary to make atonement and donate the money to charity. As a rule, in a single prayer no Kaddish and holiness are said.
It is possible and necessary to say our father is our king.
A confession should be added to the opening prayer in a whisper.
Break break: Get a fast a few minutes before sunset around 18:10
Yom Kippur prayers are
also wrapped in a tallit in the evening.
The prayer of every vow has two faces - allowing vows is only possible in a quorum of ten men, and delivering an announcement that henceforth any promise or statement of ours will not be considered a vow.
This message has a side that can also be said in the singular.
Therefore whoever wants may say, but the words "from the past Yom Kippur to this Yom Kippur should be skipped"
Then there is a special prayer:
"Prayer won" for the Ashkenazi testimony and "Go to my desire" according to the testimony of the East.
In Arabic prayers, one should remember to say in the Shema Yisrael "Blessed be the glory of his majesty" aloud.
You can also say piyyutim and slichot without thirteen virtues, and without the prayers written in Aramaic (those who know the flavors of the Bible can say thirteen virtues in their tastes)
It is customary to recite at least four chapters of Psalms before going to bed.
On Yom Kippur fasting
it is forbidden to wash face and brush teeth, washing hands is done until the fingers are connected with the hand.
You followed the same instructions as in Arabic.
It is worth reading the Torah portion of the day from the cycle, whoever used to say "Yizkor" on Yom Kippur can say in the singular.
(The justification to remember to give on the evening of Yom Kippur)
Added in the singular, to say also the work order of the High Priest (appears in the cycle in the repetition of the Shatz) Slichot Vij Midot as in Arabic.
Mincha can be prayed from 13:10, it is worth reading from the cycle the affair of incest and the death of a dove.
Closing prayer
Pray after 18:00 in the evening to end with the sunset in isolation is shorter.
The blowing of the shofar is not obligatory at the end of the lock, but is a testimony to the removal of the Shechinah.
Praying in Arabic happily
Havdalah over wine and candle lit on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Guidelines for patients on Yom Kippur
As a matter of principle, patients are divided into three types.
Group A
People who are healthy but have sensations must fast.
For most people, fasting hurts a little and this is mental torture, which the Torah commanded.
Group in
patients who are not in danger.
(I.e. those who have a disease in their body but it does not endanger their lives) If the doctor says that there is no need to eat, make sure to drink plenty before fasting.
And if they are undecided between praying in the minyan and completing the fast, then it is better to rest at home in the air conditioner and give up the minyan and prayer and not break the fast because this is the mitzvah and you have tortured your souls.
If doctors order the patient to eat or drink he should consult a rabbi before fasting and get precise instructions.
There are those who have enough to eat for lessons, ie 30 cc every 9 minutes. Or drink for lessons.
Group C
If the person is seriously ill, find out before the fast with a doctor and then with a rabbi whether he should eat normally or for classes.
Every person who feels bad and whose face has changed on Yom Kippur feeds him immediately.
Severe mental supervision and no games in human life.
Fetuses or breastfeeding in
principle need to fast.
Even if the husband needs to be at home with the children, and give up prayer in the minyan so that his wife can rest and fast.
For complex situations (weakness, miscarriages, lack of milk and the baby only breastfeeding) the rabbi should be consulted before fasting for instructions.
Corona patients
without symptoms - they are judged as a normal person and must fast.
Mild symptoms - will start fasting, increase rest and shorten prayers.
And if H.W. attacks them with tremendous weakness, if he feels that eating or drinking will improve his condition he will eat or drink for classes. When he feels well he will not continue to eat or drink.
Severe symptoms or risk groups - do not fast and receive instructions And drink as usual.