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3 Reasons to Eat on Yom Kippur
If you’re in recovery from an eating disorder, from dieting, or are healing your relationship with food, it’s okay to eat on Yom Kippur – and you don’t need a rabbi to tell you that, because you have autonomy over your own body and decisions. For me, fasting is a destructive reminder of the days I’d starve myself. In…
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Be Real. Kvetch More.
Sometimes I wonder if I complain too much, or if I’m too negative. There’s definitely a fair amount of kvetching (complaining) in the Jewish world. We worry. We’re on edge. I think it’s probably embedded in us after centuries of persecution. It’s all over our comedy. It’s even in the Torah; the Hebrews complained that things weren’t as…
