Diet Guide for the Jewish Holidays
As a general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on which you must starve and days on which you must overeat.
Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year, based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are ritually purified, you definitely aren't.
Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring light snacking.
The Yo-yo Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:
- Rosh Hashanah: Feast
- Tzom Gedalia: Fast
- Yom Kippur: More Fasting
- Sukkot: Feast
- Hashanah 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.)
- 17th of Tammuz: Fast (definitely no 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 the High Holidays arrive.
And then do it all over again!
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