tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post7527654174529414105..comments2024-03-14T02:22:26.957+00:00Comments on Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries: The Kapparot ritual on the eve of Yom KippurUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-55560324693491015762008-10-08T18:43:00.000+01:002008-10-08T18:43:00.000+01:00Here is another form of the above URL:http://tinyu...Here is another form of the above URL:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/4nlyyj<BR/><BR/>Or, Google "shlogn kapores" for more.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-8459395485368994122008-10-08T18:41:00.000+01:002008-10-08T18:41:00.000+01:00The Ashkenazim also practised the ritual, termed "...The Ashkenazim also practised the ritual, termed "shlogn kapores".<BR/><BR/>Here is a link:<BR/>http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/fluek/shlognKapores.html<BR/><BR/>I have the impression rabbis sometimes discouraged the practise, considering it as a mild form of superstition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12677825.post-16084407769865937402008-10-08T18:12:00.000+01:002008-10-08T18:12:00.000+01:00I'm an Ashkenaz, born in Canada in 1952 to two Can...I'm an Ashkenaz, born in Canada in 1952 to two Canadian born Jews. We never observed the Kapparot ritual, but I do recall my father talking about his Polish-born father taking him down to the local Jewish market and purchasing a fowl in order to wring its neck and give the bird to a needy family for the meal after the fast ends. (My mother grew up in a small town with very few Jewish families and therefore had no such memories.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com