Breaking the Yom Kippur Fast

The fast begins before sundown on 10 Tishri (September or October) and lasts until the first stars appear the following night

At the close of Yom Kippur a voice issues from heaven and says, “Go and eat your bread joyfully, drink your wine in good spirit, for God has accepted your efforts”

—ECCLESIASTES RABBAH 9:7

Then my father came back to life, and in the evening he broke his fast after the Ne’ilah service.

—YEHUDA AMICHAI, “THE TIMES MY FATHER DIED”