2007-01-03 21:45:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Fish
This is a Jewish holiday,
Below explains the fish..
Laws and Lore:
Eating Before Yom Kippur
It is a mitzvah to eat and drink heartily on Erev Yom Kippur. Our Sages write: The Torah (Leviticus 23:32) states: And you shall afflict your soul on the ninth of the month in the evening.
Do we fast on the ninth? We fast only on the tenth! [How then is this verse to be understood?] It comes to teach us that all who eat and drink on the ninth, and fast on the tenth, are considered by Scripture as if they had fasted on both the ninth and the tenth.
The reason why eating on the ninth is considered so great a deed that it is equivalent to having fasted, is that by doing so, we show our joy that the time for our atonement has arrived. By extension we thus show that we are concerned with our sins.
Another reason: On other Festivals we partake of fixed meals as a means of expressing our happiness in having the opportunity to fulfill mitzvot. This joy is in itself a source of merit. Since we cannot partake of a festival meal on Yom Kippur, we do so on the day before Yom Kippur instead.
A third reason: The festive meal on Erev Yom Kippur provides us with the physical strength needed on Yom Kippur to focus ourselves on prayer, supplication, and reflection that will lead us to teshuvah.
Tur (Orach Chayim 604) states:
This (eating on Erev Yom Kippur) stems from His great love for His people, for He commanded them to fast only one day a year - for their benefit, so that their sins might be atoned. He commanded them to first eat and drink so that they might fast and the affliction would not harm them.
It is customary to eat fish at the morning meal on Erev Yom Kippur.
2007-01-03 22:00:59 · answer #1 · answered by B 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
An all-forgiving fish.
2007-01-03 21:48:02 · answer #2 · answered by Clive 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it.s from the family of fish called bombay duck
2007-01-03 21:51:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It a Herring
2007-01-03 22:01:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is as much a fish as a bombay duck is a duck!
2007-01-03 21:58:28 · answer #5 · answered by B T 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's related to the loan shark.
2007-01-03 21:53:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a red herring dude
2007-01-03 21:57:31 · answer #7 · answered by chillipope 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A kosher one.
2007-01-03 21:46:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding or did you not know that that's a Jewish holiday?
2007-01-03 21:54:11 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It is a Jewish holiday.........sorry all out of kipper.
2007-01-03 22:13:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋