Absolutely disgusting!
“It’s a carnival of cruelty,” Karen Davis, president of United Poultry Concerns (UPC), told The Dodo.
WARNING: Graphic photos below.
In the practice of kapparot, supplicants swing a live chicken around their heads three times while saying a prayer that translates to: “This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my expiation. This chicken shall go to death and I shall proceed to a good, long life and peace.” The chicken is then slaughtered and, traditionally, donated to the poor.
Not many Jews practice kapparot, and an even smaller portion use a live chicken, as a bag of money is an accepted alternative. But the practice has drawn intense scrutiny both from within the Jewish community and without, particularly in places like Brooklyn…
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Absolutely disgusting, and I’m the granddaughter of a rabbi, but my parents would never go for this kind of ritualistic animal abuse. It makes me want to totally renounce being Jewish.
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I am happy that they are good people and never would do that, have to say that I had never heard of this before, absolutely shocking..
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