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 A Wing & A Prayer The Kapparot Chicken- Swinging Ritual 
“Kapparot is not consistent with Jewishteachings and law. Repentance and charity can be better accomplished by using money instead o a slaughtered chicken.” 
– FormerIsraeli Chie Rabbi Shlomo Goren quoted in“Jewish chicken killing ritual o Kapparot,”Los Angeles press release by Nazila Mahgereteh, September 28, 2006
“Our intention is not to dismay. Our intention is tosave lie.” 
– Roberta Kalechosky, Jews or AnimalRights
What is kapparot?
Kapparot or kaparos, meaning “atonements,” isa custom in which a chicken or money may beused. Kapparot using chickens is practiced by some Jews shortly beore Yom Kippur, the JewishDay o Atonement. First, selections rom Isaiah11:9, Psalms 107:10, 14, and 17-21, and Job33:23-24 are recited. Ten a rooster (or a man)or a hen (or a woman) is held above the person’shead and swung in a circle three times, while theollowing is spoken: “Tis is my exchange, my substitute, my atonement; this rooster (or hen)shall go to its death, but I shall go to a good, long lie, and to peace.” Te chicken is then slaughteredand may or may not be given to the poor or ood.
History of kapparot 
Kapparot is not mentioned in the orah or thealmud. It was rst discussed by certain Jewishscholars in the ninth century who claimed thatsince the Hebrew word
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meant both “man”and “rooster,” punishment o the bird could besubstituted or that o a human. According tothe Encyclopedia Judaica, other Jewish scholarsstrongly opposed kapparot. Te 13th-century scholar Rabbi Solomon ben Abraham Aderetconsidered kapparot a heathen superstition. Rabbi Joseph Caro called it a “oolish custom.” Othershave pointed out that kapparot does not removesins, and i it could, what would be the need or Yom Kippur, the Day o Atonement?
More recent objections to kapparot 
“Anyone who walks through the markets can see that the manner in which the chickens are held beore the Kapparot is insuferable. Tere is no veterinary supervision and no concern or the eelings o these  poor creatures.” 
–Rabbi Gilad Kariv quoted inynetnews.com 09/28/2006Te chickens are treated poorly in the days leading up to, during, and ater the kapparot ceremony.In the U.S., Israel and elsewhere where the ritualis perormed, the birds are crammed in crates, where they are typically kept in their ownexcrement, without ood, water or shelter,or six days beore the “shlug kaparos”(“swinging o the chickens”) is perormed onthe eve o Yom Kippur. In 2005 and 2006,the ASPCA in New York City conscatedhundreds o starving chickens abandoned incrates in a garage and a parking lot when theceremony was over. Chedva Vanderbrook,a board member o the Jerusalem SPCA,described a typical scene in Jerusalem: “Techickens are brought to the slaughter incramped cages without water in the broiling sun. Hal o them die on the way.”In 2006, Nazila Mahgereteh describedthe events she watched take place in Los Angeles:
“For 6 days until Oct. 1, morning 
Chickens abandoned by Kapparot practitioners in Brooklyn, NYin October 2005. Photo by: Sam SchlossKapparot chicken found injured and covered with feces in SantaMonica, CA on September 20, 1996. Photo by: Cherylynn BrownKapparot practitioner performs chicken-swinging ritual in Israelin 2003. Photo by: Agence France-Presse
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