It's getting less kosher to wave a chicken over your head to take away your sins.
A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday.
ASPCA Joins Attack on Kapores
It’s getting less kosher to wave a chicken over your head to take away your sins.
A Brooklyn man said the ASPCA all but forced him to stop the controversial tradition at his feather-strewn business yesterday.
“[The ASPCA workers] were ready to call the Health Department,” said the man, who runs the seasonal “Satmar Kapparos Center” out of a parking lot at 12th Avenue and 48th Street in Borough Park.
“They asked me what I was feeding [the birds]. I said challah and water,” said the man, who refused to reveal his name. “They said, ‘No, you have to feed them grain.’ ”
According to Jewish tradition, people wave a bird over their head to “transfer” their sins to it. It’s then killed.
An ASPCA rep said the agency “visited the center . . . to investigate a cruelty complaint and found no violation of . . . laws. The man decided to remove the chickens on his own.”
scarede
i am getting scarede that 1 day (not to long from now) we will be doing kappros in the basemint
Chickens aren-t magic
We jews don’t swing chickens over our heads to “transfer” sins!
Chabad org – “The reality is that there is no magic in kapores which transfers a person’s sins to the chicken. Even in the days of the Temple, sins were not magically transferred to an animal. The entire purpose of kapores is to create an experience that inspires a person to teshuvah , that is to return to G-d and to repent.”
good point
thats is very true and very good point to bring up it should be publicized so no1 makes that mistake again
What next?
I think of America as a Communist country. After fighting the USSR for so long we still came to universal healthcare, a President trying to take too much power, and there is more to come, I fear.
AGAIN LOOKING FOR TROUBLE WHERE IT ISN-T
“According to Jewish tradition, people wave a bird . . . . It’s then killed.”
“An ASPCA rep said the agency ‘visited the center . . . to investigate a cruelty complaint and found no violation of . . . laws.’”
“’The man decided to remove the chickens on his own.’”
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OK:
1) We don’t merely “KILL” the chickens after kapporos; that makes it sound like what we’re doing is a big waste! It needs to be made clear to the media that the chickens are shechted and then made available as food for the poor and for educational institutions, etc.
2) How many other complaints to the ASPCA, which get investigated and it turns out that they “found out there were no violations of . . .laws” end up reported on in the NY POST????
This is clear insinuation that kapporos is reportable in the newspaper as cruelty, when no cruelty was found!
In reality, there’s no cause for a news story here!!!! Can you spell “anti-Jewish reporting”????
3) Well, wouldn’t you remove the chickens, EVEN THOUGH NO VIOLATIONS WERE FOUND, with the press crawling all over the place????
Why aren’t the ASPCA and the HEALTH DEPARTMENT doing their jobs where there ARE VIOLATIONS, instead of harassing Jews and calling the press over nothing????
[PS: I’m sending this to the NY Post, but I’d be extremely surprised if they even pay any attention to it at all.]
PETA killing animals
check out what PETA is doing… they are killing hundreds of animals…
petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf
please download and print this PDF file and show it to anybody who comes from these organizations(PETA, ASPCA etc…), and see what they have to say for themselves.
people who are overly righteous, usually have skeletons in their closets.
One of the many faces of anti semitism
Has anyone actually actually been able to make a valid statement as to how the act of kaporos is cruel? Ask the chicken if it would rather perform kaporos or be boiled alive like the lobsters in non-kosher restaurants.. Anti- semitism does not want to admit to its identity, so it justifies its own cruelty by irrationally calling its target cruel.