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Rabbi Akiva Eiger was asked whether a sickly woman who had trouble eating was obligated to eat on Erev Yom Kippur. He
ruled unequivocally that she is exempt. However, Rabbi Eiger questioned whether even healthy women have an obligation
to eat on Erev Yom Kippur.

זט ןמיס ,אמק ארודהמ ,רגיא אביקע יבר ת”וש 5 .
,אמרג ןמזהש ע”מ לכמ ומכ תורוטפ ןה רשפאד כ”הוי ברעב לוכאל תובייח םא תואירבה םישנ לכב ךובנ ינא לבא
אוה וא ,הרומג השרד ’וכ יעישתב התושו לכואה לכד אשרד ךה םא קפתסמד םירדנ תוכלהמ ג”פ מ”כב ’ייעו[
רמולו ’וכו ברעב שדוחל העשתב ןושלב הל קיפמ ארקד ןויכ ,אל וא ,]אמרג ןמז אוה ךכו ךכ ןיבו ,אמלעב אתכמסא
,יעישתב לוכאל ’וכ םתינעו םייקל בייוחמ ירישע תינעתב בייוחמש לכ אליממ ירישעו יעישת הנעתה ולאכ יוהד
.יאנפה תעל ע”צו
Responsa Rabbi Akiva Eiger, Mahadura Kama, Siman 16
However I am confounded regarding whether healthy women are obligated to eat on the eve of Yom Kippur. For it is
possible that they are exempt similar to all positive time-bound mitzvot (see the Kesef Mishneh, Hilchot Nedarim,
Chapter 3 where he is uncertain whether this exposition of “anyone who eats and drinks on the ninth, etc.” is
a complete exposition [giving it the force of a biblical law] or just an asmachata [allusion], but either way it is
time-bound; or not, since the verse derives it using the language of “the ninth in the evening”... to teach that it is
as if one fasted on the ninth and tenth, implying that anyone who is obligated to fast on the tenth would also be
obligated to fulfill the “affliction” of eating on the ninth. But this needs further investigation when time permits.

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