Kapparot and Parts of 11,000 Chickens
Kapparot is a custom performed by some Jews before Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
A live chicken is swung around and above a person’s head and moved in a circle three times.
A prayer is said and the person’s sins are transferred to the chicken which is then slaughtered and has its meat donated to the poor. Not the poor chicken.
A group in Ramapo did the deed with 11,000 chickens.
When all was said and done, all wasn’t said and done as the group left the ritual site with chicken parts, blood, feces, feathers, a terrible smell and other garbage, such that it attracted flies, maggots, and was otherwise turned into a pit of disease, kind of like the garbage heap outside the walls of Jerusalem.
It also attracted a $3,000 fine.
Lawyers are in on the fiasco.
“The fact that someone is practicing their religion does not give them the right to commit a crime by abusing animals,” said a Suffern lawyer. “They have to treat the chickens in a way that minimizes their suffering.”
Kill them in such a way that it doesn’t hurt.
Maybe the lawyer is afraid that he is next.
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