When a sick person needs to eat on Yom Kippur, whose word is followed — the doctor's or the patient's?
Synopsis
The primary rule is that one feeds a sick person on Yom Kippur on the word of an expert doctor; but if the patient says he needs to eat, even 100 doctors who say otherwise are overridden. If the doctor says he needs food even though the patient says he doesn't, the doctor is followed.
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