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Yom Kippur
A fast of about 25 hours with no food or water, framed by a meal before and a gentle one after.
What is eaten for Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the Jewish year. From before sunset until after nightfall the next day, adults neither eat nor drink. The meal before the fast is filling but mild and not salty, often chicken soup with kreplach. The meal that breaks the fast is light and usually dairy, prepared in advance. In Ashkenazi homes that means bagels with smoked fish and cream cheese, noodle kugel and blintzes. Many Moroccan Jews break the fast with harira soup.
The dishes
More dishes made for Yom Kippur
Tajineطاجين
🇲🇦 Morocco and 4 moreNorth African stew slow-cooked in a cone-lidded clay pot
Main dish, Lunch, Dinner
Muhallebiمهلبی
🇮🇷 Iran and 5 moreA smooth milk pudding thickened with rice flour or starch, served cold
Sweet or dessert
Avgolemonoαυγολέμονο
🇬🇷 Greece and 4 moreGreek soup or sauce thickened with egg and lemon
Soup, Lunch, Dinner
Written by the Thali desk with AI assistance. Background: "Yom Kippur" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from family to family and place to place. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bagel: Evan-Amos, Public domain, source
- Harira: وهراني, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Lox: Pug50, CC BY 2.0, source
- Muhallebi: E4024, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Avgolemono: Alpha, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Tajine: Bawdeep2010, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kugel: Stuart Spivack, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Kreplach: Zlerman, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Blintz: Susánica Tam, CC BY 2.0, source