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12 Kavanos To Have Eating on Erev Yom Kippur

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It might even be your favorite day of the year. It's a day there's actually a mitzvah to eat. The says there's a mitzvah to eat because we're not fasting tomorrow. It says so interpret that if you eat tomorrow, it's considered like you fasted on the 9th and the 10th. However, if you want to get full credit for the mitzvah, you need to have kavana to the mitzvah of eating. And actually, I'm going to share with you 12 amazing cavanas to have to transform your eating into a tremendous mitzvah and connection. So kavano number one is have kavano when you eat tomorrow the mitzvah of eating on yum kipper number two says the reason why if you f if you eat tomorrow it's like you fasted two days is because it will strengthen your fast it will give you energy to fast it will upgrade your fast it will be like you double the value of your fast because you'll actually have energy to do chuva therefore have kavana when you eat tomorrow to have strength to fast on yum kipper. Number three, yum kipper is the happiest day of the year. We have a way to atone for our sins. We should really have a great party on yum kipper. The problem is you can't have a party when you're fasting. So therefore, we have the suda. We have the party tomorrow. Tomorrow is a suda to show how happy we are that yum kiper is here because says a mitzvah is greatly enhanced when you do the mitzvah. So tomorrow when we're at the suda we're rejoicing that has given us the great gift of yum kipper. So we're fulfilling yum kipper number four. You see chuva does not atone for many kinds of sins. It only atones for an it doesn't atone for alav. For alav you need yum kipper. Therefore the whole year we're worried when's yum kipper coming? When's yum kipper coming? Yum. When's Yum Kipper coming? Finally, when Yam Kipper is coming, we rejoice that we finally made it so we could get get atonement. This shows that we were concerned for the sins in our repertoire. That's another kabana to have. It demonstrates our worry that we were worried. Will we make it to yam? That's a fourth cabana. Kabana number five. The teaches before you do any mitzah, you should have a thought of chuva. Therefore before you eat have a chuva teaches you should do. So when you eat tomorrow think you're being the with love forum teaches we should do mitzvah with reverence and awe. When we eat tomorrow we should have we're doing the mitzvah with we should do the mitzvah. We should rejoice. Not just like we said that we're rejoicing that is here that we're being in the mitzvah of not just we're showing that we were concerned for our sins and finally we're happy we made it to yum. We rejoice to fulfill the mitzvah of eating. Then we're doing the mitzvah to bring to bring hashem and it brings an aliyah to the that's the ninth kavana number 10 and 11 we're doing the mitzvah bashim kal is on behalf of all the Jewish people not everybody knows about this mitzvah so we're doing it to bring merit to the entire team to all of kalis to bring them merit and also to protect them. So we're to eat to bring to all of Israel and to protect Israel. And finally number 12, we're doing the mitzvah to expedite the redemption teaches that a very high level of to have when we do mitzvah is to expedite the redemption. So number one, we're having of eating. Number two, we're doing it to strengthen our fast on. Number three, to show that we're so happy to have this to be able to fast on yum kipper. Number four, it shows that we had we were concerned. We were worried to be able to reach yum kipper. Number five, we're maheruva as were in the mitzvah. Number six, we're doing it with great love of Hashem. Number seven, we're doing it with a great awe and reverence. Number eight, we're doing it with great joy. Number nine, we're doing it to bring nas to Hashem. We're eating to bring Hashemas. 10 and 11, we're doing it to bring merit to the Jewish people and to protect them. And number 12, to expedite the redemption. May we be z to all the mitzvo and with the right kavana.