[Avodah] Kaparos

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 04:14:03PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: On the reason for using davka a rooster, see Maharal, Netivot Olam,
: Netiv Ahavat Hashem ch 1:
: http://hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=34216&pgnum=201
:  The rooster represents the human soul [...] it was not for nothing
:  that they established the custom of slaughtering a rooster on Erev
:  Yom Kippur, that it be a substitute for ones soul.

"Sechvi" appears once in Tanakh, Iyov 38:36, where Targum translates
"liba" -- or "tarnigol", depending on version. (It may be that Iyov's
"SECHvi" means heart, but "sechVI" means "rooster".)

Like the double entendre of "hanosein lasechvi vina", where sechvi refers
both to the crowing rooster (Rashi, Tosafor)and a person's heart
(Rabbeinu Yonah, the Rosh).

This Maharal appears to be along the same lines.
Thank you.

GCT!
-Micha

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