Chapter 133 – Yom Kippur

133.1) Do not eat, drink, bathe, anoint, wear shoes, or have sexual intercourse.

133.2) Do not touch either food or drink when feeding a minor.

133.3) Do not wash for pleasure.

133.4) The kodanim who go up to bless the people must wash their hands to the wrist and repeat the benediction Al netilat yadayim.

133.5) An ill person may wash as usual.

133.6) If you have a nocturnal pollution, wipe it off with a cloth.

133.7) Do not anoint for any reason.

133.8) You may wear shoes made of rubber, straw, or cloth.

133.9) You may stand on cushions or spreads except while saying Shemoneh esreh.

133.10) An ill person or a woman within the thirty days of confinement may wear leather shoes.

133.11) A man may not caress his wife.)

133.12) Pregnant and nursing women must fast the whole day.

133.13) Some exceptions exist for eating for a craving pregnant woman.

133.14) Laws concerning eating are guided by the same laws that govern the Sabbath for ill people and women in confinement.

133.15) Certain things are to be said to a women or ill person who partakes of food on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) per the exceptions. See the source for details.

133.16) A person who is overcome with the need to eat may be fed until he is better.

133.17) All those who may eat may be given forbidden food, if permitted food is unavailable.

133.18) An ill person should say benediction before and after eating if possible.

133.19) Children less than nine years old should not fast.

133.20 ) Smell spices several time during the day may help divert you from hunger.

133.21) Say memorials for the dead.

133.22) Circumcisions should be performed before Ashrei (a prayer that is recited at least three times daily in Jewish prayers) is said.

133.23) It is customary to spread grass on the synagogue floor.

133.24) Begin the Neilah (concluding) service when the sun is over the tree tops.

133.25) A non-Jew should distribute candles, but a Jew should light them.

133.26) When the Neilah service is concluded say, Avinu malkenu (our Father, our King).

133.27) Pray the Maariv (Jewish prayer service held in evening or night) service after the stars are visible.

133.28) You should use a candle that was lit the day before Yom Kippur in the havdalah.

133.29) Eat, drink and rejoice at the conclusion of Yom Kippur.

133.30) The devout will begin construction of the Sukkah (temporary hut constructed for use during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot (one of Judaism’s three central harvest festivals) immediately after Yom Kippur is over.

133.31) Rise early and go to synagogue to pray the day after Yom Kippur.