Holiday | Fast or Feast |
Rosh Hashanah | Feast |
Tzom Gedalia | Fast |
Yom Kippur | More fasting |
Sukkot | Feast |
Hoshanah Rabbah | More feasting |
Simchat Torah | Keep feasting |
Month of Heshvan | No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on yourself. |
Hanukkah | Eat potato pancakes |
Tenth of Tevet | Do not eat potato pancakes |
Tu B'Shevat | Feast |
Fast of Esther | Fast |
Purim | Eat pastry |
Passover | Do not eat pastry |
Shavuot | Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes etc.) |
Seventeenth of Tammuz | Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes) |
Tisha B'Av | Very strict fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes) |
Tisha B'Av | Very strict fast (don't even think about cheesecake or blintzes) |
Month of Elul | End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating Disorders before High Holidays arrive again. |