[Avodah] Kiddush Levanah on Motzoei Yom Kippur

[Akiva Blum]

Harry Maryles <hmaryles at yahoo.com> wrote:
   >Subject: Re: [Avodah] Kiddush Levanah on Motzoei Yom Kippur
   >To: A High-Level Torah Discussion Group <avodah at lists.aishdas.org>
   >Message-ID: <20061005015537.19690.qmail at web36702.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
   >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
   >
   >
   >
   >--- Yitzchok Levine <Larry.Levine at stevens.edu> wrote:
   >
   >> Many have the custom of making Kiddush Levanah on Motzoei Yom
   >> Kippur 
   >> right after Maariv. However, this means that the wives of the men 
   >> making Kiddush Levanah have to wait longer before they can break 
   >> their fast, because they have to wait for their husbands to return 
   >> home and make Havdalah before they can eat. Is it really proper to 
   >> perform this mitzvah at the "expense" of others who may well be 
   >> feeling weak from fasting?
   >
   >This practice is Halachicly incorrect. One is supposed to eat before
   >making Kiddush Levana. It is only out of expedience that many shuls
   >do so. In my son's Shul in Ramat Bet Shemesh everyone goes home to
   >make Havdlaha and eat immediately after the Maariv and return later
   >at a pre-determiend time to do Kiddush Levanah. 

This practice would seem to ignore the heter of the MB (426:11 see shaar hatziyoon) that one is not required to eat before KL on MYK, because of the simcha of mchilas avonos. This is unlike Tisha beav where the practise is widespread to do as above.

Akiva