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and Yours
A Very Happy
and Healthy
New Year

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OLDS/SAAB
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A Kapparot ceremony.

cess of repentance and atone-
ment, has a profound effect on
those who observe it. "The
custom of using money in
place of a fowl maintains the
spirit of kapparot," says Rab-
bi Berzon, "but the sacrificial
experience is obviously
diminished."
In the Conservative and
Reform movements, this
custom is believed to conflict
with the spirit of Judaism,
which has no history of
vicarious sacrifice.
The Spanish and Por-
tuguese communities of
Holland and later in
America, did not observe hap-
parot at all, while Sephardic
and Chassidic communities
with more mystic, kabbalistic
learnings, did. In fact, kab-
balists such as Isaiah
Horowitz and Isaac Luria
were great believers in the
kapparot ceremony and found
mystic illusions in its
performance.
One practice consisted of
planting beans or peas in
palm-leaf baskets, two to
three weeks before Rosh
Hashanah. On the eve of the
festival, children would swing
the baskets of ripened plants
around their heads three
times saying, "This be in lieu
of me, this be my substitute
and my exchange," and then
throw the plants into the
water.
The Judeo-Spanish com-
munity has a special kap-
parah service for the con-
struction of a synagogue and
another for the dedication of
a new home. Participants
wave a live rooster over their
heads and recite the Yom Kip-
pur blessing. The blood of the
slaughtered animal is then
poured into the foundations
and the animal is given to
charity. Thus the new
building is founded on chari-
ty and blessing. II
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