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Chayei Adam - K’lal 144 - Laws of Erev Yom Kippur

begin pouring the second before the first is finished, and also the third [should
begin] before the second is finished. Four containers however cannot combine
together, and immersing in a vessel is nothing.

]8[ Even a mourner in the middle of shiva can immerse on erev Yom Kippur an
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hour before the night. Even though the custom is to forbid [a mourner] from
bathing for a full thirty days, a mitzva of immersing is different. The other laws of
mourning such as sitting on the ground and not wearing shoes apply until the
night, as there is nothing greater about erev Yom Kippur than any other erev yom
tov except that it is a mitzva to eat. 45

[ 9 ] Since a person is obligated to say vidui on Yom Kippur, Chazal mandated
that we say vidui earlier, during mincha, since the kedusha of the day already
begins from chatzos. [They mandated such] out of concern that while eating the
seudah ha’mafsekes, something bad might happen and he won’t be able to say
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vidui after the meal, or lest he die. Therefore, they mandated that after
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mincha, immediately after saying ‘sim shalom’ and before adding ‘yehiyu
l’ratzon’ he should [add] vidui. The same applies to every time vidui is said on
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םדו רשב
for a discussion of pouring nine kav. of a concern on a regular yom tov), he should
immerse an hour before. (Taz)
44. The Tashbatz and Mahari Segal
permitted a mourner in the middle of shiva to 45. Although on erev Pesach, the shiva
bathe and immerse on erev Yom Kippur. ends at chatzos, on the eve of other yomim
Although the Beis Yosef disagrees with this tovim, the shiva continues until closer to
leniency, the Rema codifies it as halacha, since nightfall. (See O.C. 548:10)
Yom Kippur effectively cancels the shiva.
Although usually our custom is to forbid a 46. A beraisa (Yoma 87b) teaches that
mourner from bathing for thirty days, according to R’ Meir, the obligation to say
immersing for the sake of a mitzva is vidui on erev Yom Kippur is at nightfall, but
permitted. (Darkei Moshe) Although this is Chazal say that one must confess before he
true of other yomim tovim as well, since one eats lest something damaging happen during
cannot immerse too close to Yom Kippur (lest the meal. The Ran explains that since it is
he immerse on Yom Kippur itself, which is less possible for a person to become drunk during

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