The eve of Yom Kippur: this is what is important to keep in your mind

How should one eat on the eve of Yom Kippur?

The Rebbe Rabbi Yosiah Pinto prepared for the holiest day of the year, on which every person can easily repent and get closer to the Holy One, blessed be he

David Berger, submitted on behalf of Shuba Israel

02/10/2022

Sunday, 02 October 2022, 11:11

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"A person who wants to enter Yom Kippur in a big way, will work on himself on the evil habit of gluttony" (Photo: ShutterStock)

Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the year.

Every person can easily repent and draw closer to the Holy One, blessed be He.

The eve of Yom Kippur is also a big day when there is a mitzvah to eat.

The Rebbe Rabbi Yosiah Pinto explains how it is appropriate to eat on this day.

A person who wants to enter Yom Kippur in a big way, must work on himself on the evil desire of eating. This is the first work that a person must work on himself and this is how we say in the prayer "Al "Remember for us our first sins" (Psalms At, 8) We ask God to make us forget the first sins we committed in life, because if the first sins are removed, then all the sins after that have no basis on which to stand.

The first iniquities that man committed are the weight and the ground on which all the other iniquities that man commits are built.

So the first sin that man committed was the sin of the tree of knowledge after G-d told him not to eat from the tree of knowledge. And the Torah says that Adam ate because "and lust is for the eyes" (Genesis 3:6) because of lust Adam ate from the tree and brought destruction like no other.

If Thus on Yom Kippur Eve, which is the time of atonement, the time when the person repents, the person should go and eat a lot but eat for heaven's sake. As soon as the person eats the food on Yom Kippur Eve for heaven's sake, he causes that eating to be a correction for what the first Adam ate for lust, that eating that ate Adam the first and brought destruction to the world.

On the eve of Kippur a person should eat for heaven's sake, a person will say I eat so that I have strength to fast, I eat so that I have strength for his work, may he be blessed.

Man should eat not for lust, like a man who sees food on the street and says now I eat this, no.

But for heaven's sake that he may have the strength to fast and that he may eat so that he may have the strength for his work, may he be blessed, to study Torah and observe mitzvot.

A person who eats like this on the eve of Yom Kippur, about whom the Gemara says (Berakhot 8:) All that eats and drinks on the ninth day is lifted up by the scripture as if the ninth and tenth days are being tortured, because eating on the ninth day is atonement for the first sin that a person committed and ate from the tree of knowledge.

The correction for the first sin, the lust of eating, is by the person eating not lustfully and this is like fasting on the ninth and tenth.

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