Revenge Of The Tarnagolim
Kapparot is one of those weird Jewish traditions I never quite understood. The day before Yom Kippur, you’re supposed to take a chicken (or money symbolically) and swing it over your head three times while saying a brokha. The chicken is then slaughtered (or the money goes to tzedakah). How pagan can you get?
Well, it seems that the chickens are none too happy about it.
(c/o Penina H.)
Hilarious.
And if I marry someone who’s used to swinging chickens, he will learn to swing money like I’ve always done.
I’ve never heard of this before today.. it sounds like that scene from ‘Angel Heart’ 🙂
7.35 mitrim. By the way someone please translate everything lese.
“else”
So I was chilling with my local chabnick, and he was telling me about going to crown heights last week and doing the chicken thingy. I said to him, so the chicken is getting all your sins right? He goes, yeah right. So then I say, then you kill the chicken right. He goes yeah, they slaughter it in front on you. Then I said, then at some point someone eats it. He goes, yeah. So then I say, so someone is eating your sins dude. He goes, don’t read so much into it, it’s not literal (that he thinks I am dumb enough to think it’s literal is beyond me). I said, ok, so then someone is symbolically eating your sins. Does’nt really sound like a nice idea to me. That shut him up.
P.S My Spamblock workd is transcendental, how funny is that.
Your friend should read his own movement’s web site before he misinforms others! http://www.chabad.org/holidays…