KAPPAROT - JEWISH RITUAL To SHIFT BLAME For A JEW'S SINS Onto OTHERS
Kaparot literally means “Atonement,” and the practice is meant to transfer one’s sins to the chicken.
>Kapparot is an Atonement Ritual performed by Jews on the Day before the Jewish New Year Yom Kippur.
A Chicken is swung over a Jew's head while still alive, the person SHIFTS all Blame, Guilt and Responsibility for his Sins onto the innocent Chicken.
The prayer spoken while swinging the live chicken over the Jew's head:
"This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement. This rooster (hen) will go to its death, while I will enter and proceed to a good long life and to peace."
The chicken (rooster for men, hen for women) is then slaughtered and declared a substitute for the individual, as an atonement for his or her sins.
A Verse from Job 33:24 is recited:
Then He has mercy on him and decreed, “Redeem him from descending to the Pit, For I have obtained his ransom” (Job 33:24).
To this is added the words: Life for life.
It is customary to use a white chicken, to recall the verse (Isaiah 1:18), "If your sins prove to be like crimson, they will become white as snow."
Sauce: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/989585/jewish/Kaparot.htm>
The rite concludes with the slaughtering of the fowl, although too many Jews toss the chicken into the trash.
Sauce: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-non-jewish-origin-of-kapparot/
**Here is a video of a bunch of dead and dying kapparot chickens on the sidewalk in Brooklyn. Some people call it Animal Cruelty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yemWXhF92s
Kapporat is practiced more widely in Israel.
KAPPAROT=JEWISH BLAME SHIFTING Since 670 in BABYLON
The practice of kapparot is mentioned for the first time by Amram Gaon of Sura Academy in Babylonia in 670 and later by Natronai ben Hilai, also of Sura Academy, in 853. In Talmudic times.
Jewish scholars in the ninth century explained that since the Hebrew word גבר[6] means both "man" and "rooster", a rooster may substitute as a religious and spiritual vessel in place of a man.
Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapparot
"One need not go as far as those scholars who see the Kaparot as originating in an offering to Satan in order to understand the many objections to this ritual."
"Kaparot follows the pattern of the scapegoat, a ritual of riddance, but comes too close to superstition in indicating that one may substitute the death of an animal for one’s own life."
Sauce: https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/kaparot/