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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 608

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608 ‎[1] **“The order of the meal prior to the beginning of the fast” - Containing four paragraphs.**

One eats and stops eating before dusk because one must add “from the profane to the holy”, (i.e., from the weekday to Yom Kippur). And this addition has no specific time limit. But before dusk, the length of time which is one thousand, five hundred “seconds” prior to nightfall, one has to add from the profane (i.e., from the weekday) to the holy (i.e., Yom Kippur) either a little time or more time. ‎[2] Women who eat and drink until it is dark, and they do not know that it is a good deed (*mitzvah*) to add “from the profane to the holy” should not be objected to doing so, so that they should not do it (later) presumptuously (defiantly).

Hagah*: The same is the rule in every forbidden thing, we say that it is better that they (the people) do it (the wrong thing) inadvertently rather than doing it presumptuously. But this is so only when the law in question is not explicitly stated in the Torah, even though it is a toraitic law. But if it is explicitly stated in the Torah, than they (the people) object (try to prevent) the person who wants to transgress, (ר״ן פדק ד‘ דביצה והרא״ש בשם העיטור). But if one knows that his words would not be listened to he should not say publically that they (the women) should be admonished except once. But he should not increase the admonishing since he knows that they (the women) will not listen to him. However, in private a man is obligated to admonish him (the transgressor) until this transgressor beats him (the admonisher) or curses him, (ר״ן ס״פ הבע״י). ‎[3] If one stops eating while still much of the day is left, one is able to go back and to eat at any time as long as he has not accepted upon himself the fast.
Hagah*: See above, chapter 653 if he accepted the fast in his own heart, this is not (a legally valid acceptance) (without pronouncing the words publically). ‎[4] On the Eve of Yom Kippur one only is to eat light foods that are easily digestable, so that one will not be satiated and feel well satisfied during prayer.
Hagah*: And likewise one must not eat things that heat (stimulate) the body so that one does not come to an accidental emission, and thus one should not eat dairy food because it increases the semen, but for breakfast it is customary to eat (dairy products,) (מהרי״ל).

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Version: Hilkhot Yom ha-Kippurim, trans. by Jan M. Brahms. HUC, 1976

Source: http://library.huc.edu/pdf/theses/Brahms_Jan_M-CN-Rab-1976_rdf.pdf

License: CC-BY

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