Kapparot, Crown Heights 2009 - President Street and Kingston

Nowhere in the Torah or Talmud is this ritual mentioned.

While they weren't killing the animals at this particular time (it was to be done later), it's clear the chickens were suffering.
I had some interesting discussions with a young lady (who she was a vegetarian, and did not come to do the ritual), a rabbi, and some policemen. The young lady said she'd read Professor Richard Schwartz's book "Judaism and Vegetarianism." I gave her a copy of the amazing documentary "A Sacred Duty, " and asked her to email me with her opinion of the film.

The rabbi said I wouldn't have been talking to him if I knew who he was. I said it didn't matter, that he was a human being. I said that even if he sees me as the enemy, I only see him as a human being.

It's time for us to get out of the Dark Ages. Using chickens in Kapparot is cruel and barbaric, and it has to end.

Please see Jewish Vegetarians of North America President Richard Schwartz's article: http://www.jewishveg.com/schwartz/kap...

And United Poultry Concerns' Karen Davis' excellent resource page: http://www.upc-online.org/kaparos/

4/4/2010: Note: Due to the fact that some littleminds have chosen to use this commenting area to vomit their anti-Semitism,
commenting for this video will henceforth be screened. I will not be a party to promoting (to paraphrase a George Carlin saying) the "my god has a bigger member than your god" concept, and I will certainly not be a party to the promotion of prejudice.

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[stepbystepMYway]

It doesn't mention it in the written law but that's because it says it in the Oral Law, the Talmud. Each are intertwined and cannot be separated.

[rrrina]

@stepbystepMYway , it's in Shulchan Aruch, and many great sages took issue with it. Some learned rabbis considered it a pagan ritual, while others thought it simply unnecessary.

[stepbystepMYway]

@rrrina Yes, the Shulchan Aruch is a commentary on the Oral Law aka The Talmud and as such cannot be separated. If you look into many of the conversations that took place in that - lots of Rabbis argue over one another but in the end was considered the correct way to go.

[rrrina]

@stepbystepMYway , not true. It has remained controversial throughout the centuries, and, in fact, most Jews do NOT use chickens. In fact some (like my orthodox grandfather) do not do the ritual at all ... even with money.

[madalene2012]

I feel sick to watch this unbelieavable pile or arrogant cruelty in name of a religion while there is only a human sickness to use superstition rather than making the real efford to achieve virtues and inner qualities and leave alone those poor animals, and kill a cabbage, barbarians!!

[kingushka]

Incredible..... Punish an innocent animal for YOUR SIN......

Soooo stupid and insainly SELFISH to kill an innocent animal just to make you feel better!!!!!!!

STOP COMMITING SINS!!!!!!! Isn't that the answer?

Oh wait! That's require work on yourselves..... witch none of you do....

brainwashed animals. God see what you do!!!!!

[ThornUvDaath777]

This wouldn't be happening if the cursed "Ari" (talk about "lionizing" lol) hadn't found "mystical significance" in it. Almost nothing that came from his school of "kabbalah" is kosher, and I think theres reason to believe he was sent by the vatican to infiltrate Judaism with all manner of avodah zarah.

I piss on his grave.

[beaelliott]

Primitive and cruel. And totally unnecessary.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Adherents of such superstitions are both dangerous and cruel. They need to be banned and arrested.

[MegaSkya]

why the hell are those people holding those chickens in such a cruel way for? Why are they in such a dreadful conditions. We want to know why are they not getting food and water. Why are they missing feathers?