Fasting on Yom Kippur

Hi everybody! It's me again with another random blog. Today, I'm going to talk about my 2nd experience fasting for a Jewish Holiday, Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is a holiday for Jewish people to start fasting when a girl or boy becomes Bat or Bar Mitzvah age. It started on Tuesday at 6:33 pm and lasted until 7:45 pm on Wednesday night. It is a tough holiday because you can't eat, drink, use fire or use electricity, or even write. It was extra hard because we couldn't use our phones, watch tv or even turn on and off the lights. I was keeping it together but in the middle of the fast I got really thirsty, but I was thinking of the positive things like its once a year and I can spend time with my family. My family and I were at temple at night on Tuesday and we were there the whole day on Wednesday. I was starting to get a headache, stomach ache, and I felt extremely nauseous. The worst thing about the fast was that it was extremely hot and we had to walk to the temple but it was about 5-10 minutes away from our house. I kept getting tired and not feeling well so I went home a few times but I prayed a lot in the temple and played with a lot of little kids that were there too. When the fast was over, I drank a whole bottle of water and rushed home to brush my teeth so I can eat.We ordered pizza and when I ate my second slice, I was about to throw up and had a horrible stomach ache because of the fast. I stopped eating and drank tea. The day after it was so hard for me to go to school because I went with a horrible stomach ache. When you fast for 25 hours, you should recover the next day because your whole immune system gets messed up. Overall it was an okay fast and eventually, I got better and I'm looking forward to next year's fast. (not really, haha) That's it for today everybody thanks for reading my blog!

xoxo, debs