{"id":507,"date":"2016-10-06T17:22:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T17:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/?p=507"},"modified":"2018-09-16T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T14:56:08","slug":"the-yom-kippur-diet-mom-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2016\/10\/the-yom-kippur-diet-mom-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Yom Kippur Diet: Mom Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Two years ago, before Yom Kippur, Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold, who has spoken on this issue in the past, published \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/morethodoxy.org\/2014\/09\/29\/pregnant-and-nursing-women-fasting-on-yom-kippur-reflections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pregnant and Nursing Women Fasting on Yom Kippur-Reflections<\/a>\u201d\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/morethodoxy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morethodoxy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This piece followed her\u00a0<i>shiur<\/i>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myjewishlearning.com\/blog\/the-torch\/2014\/03\/10\/fasting-for-two\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fasting for Two: Who Makes the Call?\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which was\u00a0published\u00a0JOFA\u2019s Torch blog before\u00a0Tisha B\u2019Av. Her\u00a0<i>shiur<\/i>\u00a0spurred a great discussion on my personal Facebook wall. Women shared stories of reluctantly fasting, nervous of the effect that it would have on their unborn children or their nursing supply. I recall one woman in particular giving an hourly update of the wails of her nursing child. She had decided that since her child was almost 1-year-old, and eating supplementary food, that she would fast. For whatever reason, her child was refusing solid food on that particular day. The mother had made her decision before the fast, and despite the change in circumstances, would not revisit her decision. It was painful to read her account on that day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-yom-kippur-diet-mom-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/blogs.timesofisrael.com\/the-yom-kippur-diet-mom-edition\/<\/a><\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago, before Yom Kippur, Maharat Rachel Kohl Finegold, who has spoken on this issue in the past, published \u201cPregnant and Nursing Women Fasting on Yom Kippur-Reflections\u201d\u00a0on\u00a0Morethodoxy. This piece followed her\u00a0shiur, \u201cFasting for Two: Who Makes the Call?\u201d\u00a0which was\u00a0published\u00a0JOFA\u2019s Torch blog before\u00a0Tisha B\u2019Av. Her\u00a0shiur\u00a0spurred a great discussion on my personal Facebook wall. Women shared <a href=\"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/2016\/10\/the-yom-kippur-diet-mom-edition\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,113,134,76],"tags":[],"coauthors":[88],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-holidays","category-holidays","category-holidays-2","category-womens-forum"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utj.org\/viewpoints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}