[Avodah] Kapporos, rationalism

[david guttmann]

R.Yitzchak Grossman noted that Meiri in Hibbur Hateshuvah gives a rational
explanation. True but if one reads him carefully he does bemoan the fact
that it is seen as Nichush rather than a symbolic reminder for a hihur
teshuvah  where we see ourselves as condemned and therefore need teshuvah.

Also note that it is only children that do it and there is no mention of
twirling around the head. The minhag was started with a ram that had horns
to remind Akeidat Ytzchak and his love to HKBH.

Telling is his final comment: "Umi Yiten vehaya levavam zeh leyre'ah et
hashem hanichbad vehanorah velakachat et haminhagim bederech hana'ot
vehamevukash lo derech bilti mechaven velo derech mitzvat melumada".

Gmar Hatima Tova

David Guttmann
 
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