Guidance for Physicians on the Yom Kippur Fast

It is important for physicians to understand the role they play in guiding their Jewish patients’ decisions on whether fast Yom Kippur. While Kippur one of most spiritual events year, it also prohibited if fasting will endanger one’s health. This article presents Talmudic laws Kippur, interviews with 11 Georgetown students and faculty subjective importance fast, a review medical literature regarding contraindications fasting. In conclusion, based passages, an aspect remains meaningful people today. A contemporary research indicates primarily contraindicated by metabolic disorders that carry risk hypoglycemia psychiatric eating disorders. Physicians should nuances as religious practice be able provide information dangers patients.