Anyone else eating like normal this Yom Kippur?

amother

OP ↓

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 11:13 am

😥
My first year with this diagnosis. I need to ask every year again but this year was a hard no.
I need to eat like regular, and every mouthful is a mitzvah for me. I'm going to try not to eat in front of my kids though. I want to remember all the yom kippurs of the past Sad

Anyone with me? I feel like an alien.

amother

Chicory

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 11:18 am

I'm not eating, but my teenage daughter will be due to a medical diagnosis. I don't know if this helps you but someone shared this tefillah for those who need to eat on y"k. Just keep reminding yourself that your eating is the same as everyone else fasting. This is exactly what Hashem wants from you and you are fulfilling His will through your eating. Wishing you a gmar chasima tova and a year of health.

https://I.imgur.com/3KvMnmE.jpeg

amother

↑ OP

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 11:36 am

amother Chicory wrote:

Omein thanks so much! And to your daughter, and family too.
Really nice article, thank you!

amother

Chocolate

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 11:52 am

This is the absolutely hardest thing. You feel left out of a club of holiness at least I did. This year I’m only going to drink enough to swallow meds. It’s very hard

amother

Dahlia ↓

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 12:09 pm

Me
I always did some level of shiurim because of hypoglycemia but now that I have a heart condition I can’t fast at all

amother

Forestgreen

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 12:48 pm

Maybe I’m weird but I feel relief that I have a heter to fast out when I have certain symptoms.
I don’t feel guilt. I know that I’m doing what I need to protect myself and my baby, and the hours that I DO fast I will consider special

amother

Oatmeal

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 1:41 pm

The year I had to eat regular on yom kippur my brother told me a beautiful story of a rav (I can't recall which right now) that when he was told by his dr that he was too sick to fast and needed to eat, he exclaimed Hashem every year I served You by fasting. This year You want me to serve You by eating. It stuck with me and as hard a thing as it is to do, know in this case eating is as holy to you as fasting is to someone else.

Gmar chatima tova!

amother

↑ Dahlia

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 1:46 pm

I also comfort myself that they say that the shechina rests by bed of a choleh so likely my tefilos are worth more than someone who isn’t constantly suffering and not well

amother

Red

Fri, Oct 11 2024, 2:28 pm

amother Chicory wrote:

Thank you so much for this. I will be printing it out for dh who won't be fasting due to medical reasons. He's having a hard time accepting it.

Gmar chasima tova

amother

Pink

Sat, Oct 12 2024, 2:02 pm

amother OP wrote:

Anyone with me? I feel like an alien.

What diagnosis is it?