The Yanuka Rav Shlomo Yehuda-הגאון הינוקא - הדרכה מעשית איך להתכונן לצום יום הכיפורים היום לאחר שחרית

3:31 At times one sits with the siddur, praying calmly, sitting calmly, reading the Vidui calmly — the main thing is with kavanah. If a person is tired, he can sit on Yom Kippur. On Yom Kippur, it is known that people sit, and there are weak people; they don't need to stand. The Chasam Sofer would stand for all the tefillos — that was the Chasam Sofer's custom. Today people are weak; a difficult generation, weak — [unclear], if there is a wife at home with children, it is a mitzvah to help her.

3:58 The main thing on Yom Kippur is the fast and not the tefillos — [unclear]. One can come for Ne'ilah, for Mussaf, on Yom Kippur, for the Avodah of the Kohen Gadol, to pray — but truly, there are important things you have at home with the children: to help parents who are [unclear] — one can leave one child with the parents, so that the parents will have [unclear] the fast [unclear] — to help one another, so that the fast goes easily.

4:25 [unclear] this is d'Oraisa, from the Torah — [unclear] very, very, very great, on a very, very holy day, the holiest and most exalted of the year, and this is of very great importance, and one should use this day as much as possible, in kedushah, in purity, in joy. So I have given this [unclear]: from today already — at eight, nine o'clock — you can already begin to get used to it, to check everything that is needed, to drink plenty of water, and [unclear] less salt, less [unclear], fewer things that will [unclear], [unclear] we do it 24 hours before, [unclear].

4:59 From today already, not from tomorrow. There are those who [unclear] all the healthy things, and then the fast comes and the body is thrown into turmoil. Slowly, slowly, [unclear] water, [unclear] in stages, we prepare the body, and [unclear], with Hashem's help, and tell me that, thanks to this, you had — you had an easy fast, and that you had enjoyment, and tefillah, and in joy, and happy — for truly, this will atone for you; you come out new at the close of Yom Kippur. A new person — [unclear], nothing. The soul is truly new, holy, pure [unclear]. So I give a blessing for good [unclear] — and [unclear] what I told you: to consult a talmid chacham, with a doctor, with the family, or whoever you have, about every [unclear] regarding the parents, regarding people,

5:49 This, by the way, happened some years ago, in a certain place, when there was someone who wanted exactly — I heard a story, through someone — who went to ask whether it's possible, whether she needs to fast or not. They didn't ask a doctor — [unclear] even to ask a doctor — they didn't ask [unclear], only to ask a talmid chacham. They asked someone, a talmid chacham; they asked him, and he said she needs to fast, and she had a very severe illness and all.

6:19 And they didn't also ask a doctor — didn't ask a person who would look, by the tests, at all the medical data, by the medical condition, whether she needs to fast or doesn't need to fast, or [unclear] in measured amounts — he even told her she needs to fast the whole thing, not to fast, Of course, I said that one must consult the doctor — must — and also not to fast, also in [unclear] case. And sadly, people were too stringent with themselves, and this woman [unclear].

6:45 And so I say: these are very, very dangerous things. Many people, because they are ill, they have a poor state of health, so they want, as it were, to take on resolutions that can cause them things that can harm them, [unclear] severe. They need to increase life in the world — need more people to live; that is the goal. Of course, people need to be strong; one doesn't come to the sick and [unclear] and tell them, 'Fast on Yom Kippur' — but 'the wise man has his eyes in his head' — and in every matter, to consult a talmid chacham and a doctor, and to prepare ourselves for this holy day. May everyone have a good year.

7:23 - Amen. - A good year, amen. [unclear] from Heaven [unclear], a good life, amen — only in joy, amen.