Comments on: The Chicken Madness of Yom Kippur https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-chicken-madness-of-yom-kippur.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-chicken-madness-of-yom-kippur A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:36:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Leah Sarah https://www.odditycentral.com/pics/the-chicken-madness-of-yom-kippur.html#comment-34736 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:36:33 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=9953#comment-34736 That’s a bit of a misrepresentation of kapporos. Not only do most Orthodox Jews these days(mea shearim ultra-Orthodox aside) use charity money(called tzedakah) in lieu of the chicken, but you’ve sort of misunderstood what Yom Kippur is. It is not ‘sin for a year and then get a free ride’. On Yom Kippur, you have the hope that God will look at the past year and look at you favourably. Your sins aren’t washed away magically on Yom Kippur, Jews are given the chance to plead their case to God and PERSONALLY atone.

I would also like to say, Jews are required to atone for their sins against fellow man far sooner than they are to atone for their sins before God. You cannot be forgiven for a sin against man(embarrassment, slander, gossip, not paying wages, just to name a few sins) until that man has forgiven you for your wrong doing. Behead all the chickens you want, but you will not be forgiven.

And listen, I know that not everyone subscribes to religious, and not ever Jew subscribes to Orthodox Judaism, I just think it is perhaps not good to perpetuate false truths about Judaism. 🙂

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