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Kapparot

Kapparot ritual on the eve of Yom Kippur

Kapparot (Hebrew: כפרות, Ashkenazi transliteration: Kapporois, Kapores) is a customary atonement ritual practiced by some Orthodox Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. This is a practice in which either money is waved over a person's head and then donated to charity, or else a chicken is waved over the head and then slaughtered in accordance with halachic rules and donated to the hungry.[1]

PETA has made the claim that more than two-thirds of all the slaughtered birds are simply thrown in the trash, while the kapparot organizers claim that the sites donate the dead chickens to feed the poor.[2]

  1. ^ "Annulment of Vows and Kapparot - Jewish Tradition". yahadut.org. Retrieved 2024-08-24.
  2. ^ "URGENT: Tens of Thousands of Chickens to be Slaughtered in Ritual Killing".

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