Judge Lifts Ban on Kaporos Minutes Before Yom Kippur
From the L.A. Times:
With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge in California lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward.
United Poultry Concerns, a Maryland organization “dedicated to the compassionate and respectful treatment of chickens, turkeys, ducks and other domestic fowl,” had filed suit against Chabad of Irvine and Rabbi Alter Tenenbaum on Sept. 28.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. issued the order, which temporarily prevented Chabad of Irvine from slaughtering chickens as part of the Kapparot ritual.
Arizal
So it was too late to do kapparos bc it clearly must be done before sunrise?
Next Generation
Reply to Arizal, who wrote: “So it was too late to do kapparos bc it clearly must be done before sunrise?” — You are extremely uninformed. It doesn’t have to be done before sunrise. It doesn’t have to be done after sunrise. It doesn’t have to be done on Erev Yom Kippur. It doesn’t have to be done with a chicken. In fact it doesn’t have to be done at all!
DeClasse' Intellectual
Funny!!!!!expect more of same if the politically correct left wing liberals win the election and the liberal Jews do not care about what occurs to their more religious bretherin as I have witnessed from past experience.
Wasteful
Kapparos chickens should be eaten, not thrown away. California has strange laws.
Picaboo Shimon
I was always told the chickens go to feed the poor but year after year we see the chickens thrown in the garbage and wasted. I think its a shame to waste potential food. So i started doing kappores with money instead.
Mendy S
Shechting is painful and therefore prohibited unless the animal is eaten. If it will be thrown away, the slaughter is Ossur Min HaTorah as צער בעלי חיים. If this is what they were doing, then my guess is that this episode is a message from Hashem.
Milhouse
Where did you learn such nonsense? There is no basis in the Torah for your silly claims. There is no issur on shechting, or otherwise killing, any animal, for any reason. Killing for no reason at all would be an issur of bal tashchis, but of course kaporos is itself a sufficient reason — kol asher lo’ish yiten be’ad nafsho”.