Let’s be honest: Whether it’s cheesecake and blintzes, brisket and kugel, or even matzah and gefilte fish — almost every Jewish holiday revolves around food. How unusual then that Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, has us abstaining from food entirely! What are the origins of fasting? How and why did it come to be part of Yom Kippur? Who is required to fast? What if one is medically unable to fast — are there other ways to tap into the spirituality of the practice? Every Yom Kippur we hear God’s rhetorical question as relayed by Isaiah: “Is this the fast I desire?” As we prepare for this year’s High Holy Days during the month of Elul, let’s take a deeper look. 

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