[Avodah] Why we eat on erev YK?

[Zev Sero]

On 12/10/2011 1:18 AM, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
> 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.

I disagree in the case of matzah, maror, and korbanot.  There the mitzvah
is the eating itself; unlike EYK it applies only to specific foods, not
to everything, but when one eats those specific foods the eating is not a
means to an end but the mitzvah itself.

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