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Are little children exempt from all Yom Kippur prohibitions?

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Synopsis

Little children are exempted from most Yom Kippur prohibitions except shoe-wearing, which they dislike anyway; care services may be provided by non-Jews or through direct hand-feeding.

Shulchan Aruch OC 616:1
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