Guide To Safe Kapparot

Kashrus Magazine published a guide for the safe and proper handling of birds during kapparos, a ritual done by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur. Kapparos…

…involves waving a chicken over one's head while reciting an incantation, is meant to 'transfer' one's sins to the bird, which is then slaughtered. The sight of the bird losing its life is supposed to bring you to repentance.

PETA says Chabad's Brooklyn kapparos operation is in violation of applicable animal handling and health laws.

Watch this video.

The guide follows below. (Please click to enlarge.)

Comments

[Archie Bunker]

Rabbi Wikler seems to recognize what many rabbis do not. Regenstein is orthodox-friendly but the OU crowd and others who are absorbed in their paranoia that everyone is trying to ban shechita, view him with suspicion and have stonewalled the good professor from Cornell.

[Barry]

Why not use dairy products instead of live birds?

I plan to set up a stall in Williamsburg using cheese imported from the Galilee. You will recognize my stall by the sign reading "Atone for your Sins through Cheeses of Nazareth"

[Rachel Batya]

--"Atone for your Sins through Cheeses of Nazareth"--

Excellent! I'll look for you there. And when a holy rabbi (who doesn't appreciate your humor as we do) picks you up and starts swinging you over his head, I'll do my best to break your fall.

Oh, and remember to bring soft cheese. It will come in handy as a place to land.

[Anon]

I understand the objection to poking and teasing birds, but does the objection to molesting them apply even if the birds are over the age of legal consent?

[Carol Ann Varley]

BREAKING NEWS:
The Center for Disease Control is investigating an outbreak of erratic behavior among seniors at the Sunset Home. "We are trying to trace the source of the donated chickens," reported a spokesman for the CDC.

AL King, age 78, sits in a drab room at Sunset Home wondering why his wife of fifty years is not by his side. "She never did a bad thing in her life until now," he said, burying his face in his hands. "We can't afford bail on Social Security."

Meanwhile, Minnie, age 76, sits in a dank jail cell following her arrest outside Macy's with a $500 feathered boa flung around her neck. "I don't know what made me steal it," she cried. "I felt okay until I ate the chicken."

Millie is confused and ashamed. "Did I contract Mad Chicken Disease?" she wonders, the taste of the sinfully delicious chicken still lingers upon her tongue.

[Rachel Batya]

-- "I don't know what made me steal it," she cried. "I felt okay until I ate the chicken." --

Carol, you are so BAD! You should enter this story in Shmarya's contest. It's great.

[Carol Ann Varley]

Shmarya has a contest?

[Rachel Batya]

Shmarya has a contest?

http://failedmessiah.typepad.com/failed_messiahcom/2008/08/contest-free-bo.html

[zach]

Superstitious minhag shtus.

[its true]

~zach

amen brother.

too bad the frummies think it's kodesh kedoshim.

fools, they made the whole torah into avoda zara

[Carol Ann Varley]

A spokesman for the Center for Disease Control has advised residents of Sunset Home who consumed sin-infested chicken of an antidote: A GLASS OF PRUNE JUICE.

Macy's dropped shoplifting charges against Minnie whose behavioral symptoms were eliminated after drinking the prune juice.

"I'm back to my regular routine," she reported, to her great relief.

[Carol Ann Varley]

POSTSCRIPT: The lead investigator at CDC was commended and asked to respond. "It was alimentary," he said.

[Norman Pressman]

Why don't they use Rubber Chickens-I schlepped one last October all the way to the Kotel for that purpose-and I'm using it again this year!

[Carol-Ann]

Rubber chickens are a great idea; plus, no one has to worry about flying feces!