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she recommends fasting from 
something other than food to 
observe the holiday.
“I do have clients who 
have a variety of issues so we 
may decide to handle a Yom 
Kippur ritual in a different 
way — fasting such as taking 
a break from technology for 
the day,
” she said. “Maybe we 
cut out a meal 
or portions of a 
meal.
”
The end of 
fasting on Yom 
Kippur is usually 
marked by the 
consumption 
of break-fast foods, which 
might include bagels, 
crackers, crustless bread 
and cheese. Feldman, who 
plans to fast for Yom Kippur, 
realizes people are hungry 
and thirsty after the fast and 
may over consume food and 
drink, but that it’
s best not to 

overindulge.
“I would start with fluids. 
Drink before you eat,
” she 
said. “Just eat slowly and pace 
yourself.
”
Instead of gorging at the 
“break-fast,
” consider packing 
a doggy bag of food to enjoy 
later, she said. 
And though intermittent 
fasting has become a 
popular method of shedding 
pounds, Feldman said it’
s not 
something she recommends 
to the clients she sees since it’
s 
not something she feels can be 
sustained long term.
However, fasting done in 
observance of Yom Kippur for 
those who are healthy poses 
no health risks.
“No profound, long-lasting 
metabolic event happens 
when you fast once a year,
” 
she said. “It is safe to do if 
you don’
t have any underlying 
medical conditions.
” 

Julie Feldman

can be given to the poor with-
out touching a chicken. Some 
people recite the kapores 
phrase over coins. 
Daniel Shlomo Jacobovitz 
of Oak Park says that, “If I do 
it at all, it is on money only.
” 
Former Detroiter Nathaniel 
Warshay of Jerusalem has 
been doing kapores for 17 
years, but always with money: 
“One dollar for each member 
of the family.
”
Chana Finman first 
encountered kapores when 
she was 17, a student in a 
Brooklyn school dedicated to 
helping young women learn 
traditional Judaism. “I did my 
duty but was shocked. How 
could I do this?” 

She says she always thanked 
the chicken for the sacrifice, 
so she could feel “some prepa-
ratory dread before the Great 
Day of Judgment.
”
She lived in Melbourne, 
Australia, after she got 
married where sophisticat-
ed people participated in 
kapores. “When we came to 
Oak Park, I wanted to set it up 
in an organized way, as well” 
she says.
So Finman and her hus-
band, Rabbi Herschel Finman, 
both of Jewish Ferndale, 
“worked very hard doing 
just that for 25 years. All my 
children got involved assisting 
people from all walks of life 
who wanted to do this.
” 

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