[Avodah] Lechem Mishne on Yom Kippur

[Akiva Miller via Avodah]

I asked:

: During the years in the midbar, did the mon fall on Yom Kippur? Did a
: double portion of mon fall on Erev Yom Kippur? If not, then what did the
: children eat?

R' Micha Berger answered with a Mechilta that darshens Shmos 16:26, saying
that the mon did *not* fall on Yom Kippur. (I don't have a Mechilta, but
the Torah Temima on that pasuk very conveniently quotes it, adds some
explanation, and also gives a reference to Tosafos. Those who are
interested can look at the Tosfos on Beitzah 2b, V'hayah, which offers
differing ways to darshen that pasuk.)

At first, I thought this might leave my second question unanswered. But RMB
added:

> The Maharam miRutenburg (shu"t hachadshos #170) says that based on
> this, the people of Lotir had a minhag to use mishneh lekhem for the
> se'udah on erev YK.

It is hard for me to imagine using lechem mishne merely to commemorate the
lack of mon on YK. It must be that the people of Lotir had a tradition that
there *was* a double portion of mon on *Erev* Yom Kippur, presumably for
the children.

Akiva Miller
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