medium pimping: Yom Kippur
formerly
'le vie c'est tres droll'
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Wish I had time to write more about the Day of Atonement:
Kapparot (from AMF website)
While many modern Jews consider the practice barbaric, some Jewish communities in eastern Europe and abroad observe the ritual of kapparot. A chicken is slain by a rabbi, then the owner of the chicken takes it by the legs and swings it around over his head, while reciting a prayer to God that all his sins during the year be transferred to the chicken. (in some communities the chicken has been replaced with money earmarked for charity) This practice presumably arose as a substitute for the azazel, the "scapegoat" described the Torah, which also symbolically received the sins of the people and carried them out of the camp. In these customs we see another of the many pictures we find throughout the Tanakh, symbolic of the atoning Messiah who was to come, about whom the prophet said "the LORD visited on him the guilt of us all" (Isaiah 53:6, JPS).
May your sins be transferred to a chicken.
Love,
Rockel
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