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<DIV>": But how does eating on the 9th serve "as if we fasted"?<BR>: Or maybe
more to the point, what are we supposed to be thinking about as we<BR>:
eat?<BR><BR>I think it should be considered an opportunity to practice eating
in<BR>order to live a life of avodas Hashem, rather than living to eat."</DIV>
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<DIV>When I was a teenager I spent one erev YK morning sucking hard
candies. My mother finally had it with me and told me to stop
it. I piously explained that I read that the Chafetz Chaim did this
all day because of the mitzvah to eat on erev YK. My mother replied:
"Exactly; he did it because of the mitzvah and you're doing it because you like
candy." (My mother was a wise woman.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan </DIV></BODY></HTML>