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Yom Kippur - How could you eat?

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the special Rabbi Alolowski show and a bridged version with different ideas to get us ready for this holiday season. Yum kipper is an interesting day. It's of course a yontiff, but the Torah indicates so is the 9th. And the kazal tell us that as much as it is a mitzvah to fast on yum kipper, it is a mitzvah to eat on Arab. mitzvah to eat on Arab. Amazing, right? The ninth and the 10th. And there's different reasons for it. Some are less positive because if you know after you've eaten a lot, it's harder for you to fast. All right? So you have a big suit and you go into shul you start to slowly slowly feel yourself you suffer. That's one of the reasons that the mammod the the Jews who would that the mammod the the Jews who would um set up special groups who would fast and learn and davin while the kabonos were going on when it was their turn to represent the sib they wouldn't fast on Sunday because it was too hard to fast on the day right after coming out of shabas when you ate so much. So since there's a mitzvah of nephesh on yum kiper to to suffer. So this actually increases the suffering. There's a more

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  1. 0:00Hi, this is David Alowski. Welcome to the special Rabbi Alolowski show and a bridged version…
  2. 0:32mitzvah to eat on Arab. Amazing, right? The ninth and the 10th. And there's different reasons…
  3. 1:03that the mammod the the Jews who would um set up special groups who would fast…
  4. 1:34increases the suffering. There's a more positive idea and that is that yum kiper is supposed…
  5. 2:06kais and he says, "Today is really we should make kdish. We should have a suda,…
  6. 2:36on tishab who wants to eat if you really thought about the and all of our…
  7. 3:08and he was very upset. And this was there had been like one every day for…
  8. 3:38out loud. We stand for as much as we can because malim don't have knees. They…
  9. 4:08will forgive all of your sins on that's a it's it's a Hashem is guaranteeing us…
  10. 4:41Lashana Tova from sunny Los Angeles. >> I'd like to wish everybody All the listeners of…

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