[Avodah] Why we eat on erev YK?

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Liron Kopinsky asked:

> But don't you get that every week with the shabbat seudot or
> with every other chiyuv achila?

But there isn't any other chiyuv achila.
Erev Yom Kippur is the only time we have a chiyuv achila.

I will now explain, as someone once explained it to me:

We have a chiyuv of matza, and we accomplish it by eating.
We have a chiyuv of oneg Shabbos, and we accomplish it by eating.
We have a chiyuv of sukkah, and we accomplish it by eating.
We have a chiyuv of Simchas Yom Tov, and we accomplish it by eating.

But on Erev Yom Kippur, the chiyuv is simply to *eat*. It is not a means to some other end. It is the end itself. Just eat. That's the mitzvah on Erev Yom Kippur.

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