[Avodah] most of us do Kapparos

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, September 15, 2008 5:51 pm, Prof. Levine wrote:
: At 05:08 PM 9/15/2008,Ben Waxman wrote:
: Due to the Chassidization of Yiddishkeit, it has become the "in thing
: to do" Kapporas with chickens. However, I have always done Kapporas
: with money....

I meant that between the two, most Jews do some form of kaparos.

We discussed this in the past. In my own family, we stopped using
chickens at least 3 generations ago, and I don't think we did it in
Litta either.

Therefore, given the SA's questions of shechutei chutz and derekh
emori, I didn't find it simple to restore the minhag once broken. So
even where a local institution offers chickens and a local school
tries telling my kids it's more authentic, I still decline.

: My father-in-law has stopped doing it with chickens, because he has
: seen the way the chickens are mishandled.

But doesn't the extra food on aniyim's tables trump that?

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-micha

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