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Kapparot Revenge

Chabad Kapparot at Jerusalem's Machane Yehudah Market this morning.

Rebbe posters at Jerusalem's bus stops. Chabad (Lubavitch) wishes a happy and sweet New Year, as well as a speedy redemption, to all Jews.

Erev Yom Kippur shopping at the Machane Yehudah Market

Seen in Jaffa Road / Jerusalem

Copyright / Photos: Miriam Woelke

Photos: "Mea Shearim after Rosh Hashana"

B"H

So, how was my Rosh Hashana ? Awful, as I had caught a flue virus. It all started a day before Rosh Hashana. Suddenly I felt a pain in my throat and then fever and a cough came along. Now I am still coughing and sneezing all the time but my condition is improving. At least, the fever seems to be gone.

I was staying at home and hardly did anything but rest. Now am trying to concentrate on Yom Kippur and to overcome my demand for medication and tissues.:-)

I had something to do in Mea Shearim this morning and took a few photos on the way. Here is the result:

Kapparot Announcement

It seems as if the Sukkah building is starting earlier every year. I remember that more than 13 years ago, most Jerusalemites (incl. Haredim) started building their Sukkah on Mozzae'i Yom Kippur. This year, however, plenty of Sukkot are almost finished. Not only in Mea Shearim but also in secular parts of town.

Sukkah in Yoel Street (Mea Shearim)

Kikar Supnik and Dushinsky building a gigantic Sukkah

Balcony Sukkah in Mea Shearim Street / Jerusalem

Chassidut Gur (Ger) seemed to have had a wild Rosh Hashana Se'udah and apparently dumped all the trash on the pavement across their Beit Midrash in Ge'ulah.

The Sukkah of Chassidut Gur in Sefat Emet Street

Photos: Miriam Woelke

Kapparot Revenge

Seen on Facebook

The Liska Rebbe doing Kapparot

Further on Chassidut Liska: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liske_%28Hasidic_dynasty%29

Picture of the Day: "Kapparot in Mea Shearim"

Photo: Chadrei HaCharedim

Kapparot in Jerusalem

B"H

The KAPPAROT before Yom Kippur are nothing more but a custom ! Some great Rabbis say it is a foolish custom others see it as a Tikun (rectification of one's soul). 

I don't participate in the Kapparot but if you are planning to do so: You can  participate either by giving a certain amount of money (about 20 Shekels / 5 Dollar and more) as Zedakah for a Yeshiva etc. The second possibility is buying a chicken alive and a Shochet is going to slaughter it ritually on the spot. The chicken is being circled over your head and, symbolically speaking, the sins are being transferred into the chickens. Then it will be slaughtered and you can either give it to the poor or take it home and eat it. 

Killing thousands of chickens is causing an outcry of animal activists every single year anew. Demonstrations against Kapparot with chickens are taking place all over Jerusalem. Nevertheless, especially the Ashkenazi haredi society doesn't give in and insists on Kapparot with chickens. Many other Jews have switched to money (see photos below). 

I took the following photos in Jerusalem last year:

Kapparot with money

In front of Jerusalem's Machane Yehudah Markt (at Jaffa Road).

Kapparot with chickens ay the Etz Chaim Yeshiva near Machane Yehudah Markt

Ritual slaughter of the Kapparot chickens carried out by a Shochet

The chickens

After slaughtering, the Shochet is putting the chickens into those "holes" so that the blood comes out.

Photos & Copyright: Miriam Woelke

Links to KAPPAROT:

http://www.chaburas.org/kapparot.html

Chabad

Photos: Chicken Kapparot in Jerusalem

B"H

Last night, I went to see the Yom Kippur Kapparot done with chickens. Especially kabbalistic literature is referring to this way of doing Kapparot before Yom Kippur.

Here are some impressions from the schoolyard of the ETZ CHAIM YESHIVA near Jerusalem's Machane Yehudah Market:

 

Ritual slaughter (Shechitah) of the Kapparot - Chicken done by the Schochet.

The Chickens

After the ritual slaughter, the Schochet throws the chickens into those wholes in order to loose their blood and eventually die.

One of the guys working at a stand offered me a chicken but I refused. A while ago, I stopped doing Kapparot at all and I am thus following the Ramban who calls it a "foolish custom".

I took those pictures but was near to throw up. The smell of fresh blood was unbelievable and I escaped after a short while.

Photos & Copyright: Miriam Woelke

Links on KAPPAROT:

http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/kapparot.htm

http://www.chaburas.org/kapparot.html

Chabad

Kapparot in Jerusalem

B"H

The KAPPAROT before Yom Kippur are nothing more but a custom ! 
Some great Rabbis say it is a foolish custom others see it as a Tikun (rectification of one's soul). 

I don't participate in the Kapparot but if you are planning to do so:
You can  participate either by giving a certain amount of money (about 20 Shekels / 5 Dollar and more) as Zedakah for a Yeshiva etc. The second possibility is buying a chicken alive and a Shochet is going to slaughter it ritually on the spot. The chicken is being circled over your head and, symbolically speaking, the sins are being transferred into the chickens. Then it will be slaughtered and you can either give it to the poor or take it home and eat it. 


Killing thousands of chickens is causing an outcry of animal activists every single year anew. Demonstrations against Kapparot with chickens are taking place all over Jerusalem. Nevertheless, especially the Ashkenazi haredi society doesn't give in and insists on Kapparot with chickens. Many other Jews have switched to money (see photos below).

In front of the Machane Yehudah Market (in Jaffa Road).

Photos: Miriam Woelke

Links on KAPPAROT:

http://www.koltorah.org/ravj/kapparot.htm

http://www.chaburas.org/kapparot.html

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