Yom Kippur
A Letter From Your Diabetes, Before Yom Kippur
For anyone who has to eat on Yom Kippur, or break the fast partway through: the same Hashem who commands one person to fast commands another to eat.
Fasting
Fasting
Fasting Safely With Type 1 Diabetes: The Complete Guide for Yom Kippur 5787
Everything in one place: who should not be fasting, what target to set on every pump, the first night, the warning signs of DKA, the ketone numbers, treating a low, and breaking the fast. This replaces our guidance from all previous years.
Yom Kippur
Fasting on Yom Kippur – Part 6: When the Low Has Already Happened
It is the hardest moment of the fast. What to do the second it happens, how much to take, and why there is nothing left to weigh.
Yom Kippur
Fasting on Yom Kippur – Part 5: Mikvah on Erev Yom Kippur
A sensor is at its least accurate on its first day, and an infusion set needs time before you can trust it. The erev Yom Kippur mikvah is what pushes people into both at once. A plan for this year, when Yom Kippur begins Sunday night.
Yom Kippur
Eating on Yom Kippur: How Much, and How Often
While we all wish to start and finish a successful fast, not everyone can have one. For them, a chart and a plan.
Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 4: What Should Your Blood Sugar Target Be During the Fast?
Raising the target feels safer. The opposite is true. The number to set, why, and the one question to ask yourself before the fast begins.
Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 3: Why Fasting Is Risky for Someone With Type 1 Diabetes
Blood sugar is the part we have tools for. The real danger is a rise in acid that no home device can measure — and a number nobody can give you.
Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 2: A Low-Carb Diet Preceding a Fast
People tell me they have an easier fast when they have been eating low carb in the weeks before it. I believe they are right, and there is a reason. But it is a question you have to ask weeks ahead.
Fasting
Fasting on Yom Kippur — Part 1: Where This Started
Twenty-five years ago I wrote the first guide to fasting with Type 1, and my Rav told me to call it back. This is how it started — and what he put in writing three years ago.
Halacha
Diabetes & Halacha: 16 Shabbos Questions, Answered by the Rav
From running out of insulin before Shabbos to going low mid-Shemoneh Esrei, fasting, and carrying a pump where there’s no eruv — Rav Menachem Meir Weissmandl shlit”a answers 16 real-life halachic questions on living with diabetes on Shabbos and Yom Tov.
Halacha
דייעביטיס און הלכה: 16 שבת־שאלות, געענטפֿערט פֿונעם רב
פֿון אויסלאפן פֿון Insulin פאר שבת, ביז נידעריקער צוקער אינמיטן שמונה־עשרה, פאסטן, און טראָגן אַ Pump ווי עס איז נישטאָ קיין עירוב — הגאון רבי מנחם מאיר ווייסמאנדל שליט״א ענטפֿערט 16 הלכה־שאלות פֿון טאָג־טעגליכן לעבן מיט דייעביטיס אויף שבת און יום־טוב.
Tisha B'Av
Fasting on Tisha B'Av With Type 1 Diabetes — Loshon Kodesh & English
The clear halachic ruling that those with Type 1 diabetes do not fast on Tisha B'Av — with Havdalah guidance for a year when the fast begins on Motzei Shabbos.