#5712 – The Little Yom Kippur!
Question
Following my question above. I wonder, is not the day before every Rosh Chodesh named Yom Kippur Katan (“Mini Yom Kippur”) and is usually kept by many, including myself as a day of introspection and repentance for any wrongdoings during the past month?
Answer
Indeed Yom Kippur Katan (יום כיפור קטן) or the “Minor Day of Atonement", is a practice observed by some on the day preceding each Rosh Chodesh. The observance consists for some of fasting and supplication, but is much less rigorous than that of the real Yom Kippur.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav, Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
Answered by: Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit'a
Published: December 19, 2025
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