PROGRAMMING BEFORE YOM KIPPUR

When fasting is unsafe, it is a mitzvah to eat.

 

But who determines whether fasting is safe or unsafe for each person? Is it a rabbi? A healthcare provider? The person's own lived experience?

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The Talmud and other Jewish texts describe the decision-making process for determining whether a person fasts or eats on Yom Kippur. Despite this, many conversations occur where roles are confused and expert guidance is disregarded or contradicted.  That creates unsafe and concerning dynamics.

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Join A Mitzvah to Eat's Founding Director, Sarah Osborne, as she establishes best practices for roles, safe conversations, and decision-making with rabbis and healthcare providers.

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Come away from this program with the following:

• Experience with distinguishing between best practice and practices that are unsafe and/or unsupported by Jewish law

• Awareness of the communication and information gaps that may contribute to unsafe practices

• Support for reflecting on and listening to lived experience

• Suggestions for questions to ask healthcare providers

• Guidance for framing conversations with rabbis 

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Register here.

This program is being offered free of charge. Please consider making a gift with your registration so that we can continue to offer programs like this.​​

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We will send a recording to all registrants.