Need a chicken to purge your sins but can’t leave the house because of Covid-19? Crown Heights has got you covered.
A Brooklyn-based, Chabad-Lubavitch-run charity is offering home delivery of chickens needed for the pre-Yom Kippur ritual of kapparot. Practioners symbolically transfer their sins to the birds, which are later slaughtered or sold for charity.
“If people are nervous about going out we’ll bring the chickens to their homes,” said Rabbi Shea Hecht, chairman of the National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE), a charity that “provide[s] fast, discreet and dignified service to all sectors of the Jewish community,” according to its website. The Crown Heights-based organization has been “sponsoring kapparos for 40 years,” said Hecht.
According to a Google Doc sign-up form circulating among community members, NCFJE is offering a “home delivery (limited supply) Service, for CH residents,” Customers can order male or female chickens. (It is customary for a man to use a rooster and a woman to use a hen, which they swing above their heads.)
My grandad, who came to America after the Civil War from England, raised chickens during the Great Depression, in the country outside of Pittsburgh. My mother who is 91 laughed about how ridiculous the jews acted that came out of the city looking for capons. It's as if my grandad had to learn a masonic handshake to seal the deal that these were authentic birds that they needed for a special purpose..
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A capon is a cockerel that has been castrated or neutered, either physically or chemically, to improve the quality of its flesh for food, and, in some countries like Spain, fattened by forced feeding.
It's sad how many of White Western Men have come to resemble a 'capon' to be used in blood ritual sacrifice for the yehudah
Interesting story there Harry Mack. The Jews are a funny bunch. Not all of them. Some seem quite normal and are just as dumb most of the whites. I guess the dividing line seems to be how much money and power they have.
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