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Kaparot is a traditional Jewish religious ritual that takes place around the time of the High Holidays Classically it is performed by grasping a live chicken by the shoulder blades and moving around one�s head three times symbolically transferring one�s sins to the chicken The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor preferably eaten at the pre Yom Kippur feast In modern times Kapparos is performed in the traditional form mostly in Haredi communities The ritual is preceded by the reading of Psalms 107 17 20 and Job 33 23 24  Judaism cont Current religious thinking views the Akedah as central to the replacement of human sacrifice while some Talmudic scholars assert the replacement was the sacrifice of animals at the Temple using Exodus 13 2 12f 22 28f 34 19f Numeri 3 1ff 18 15 Deuteronomy 15 19 others view that as superseded by the symbolic pars pro toto sacrifice of circumcision Leviticus 20 2 and Deuteronomy 18 10 specifically outlaw the giving of children to Moloch making it punishable by stoning the Tanakh subsequently denounces human sacrifice as barbaric customs of Baal worshippers e g Psalms 106 37ff Kaparot is a traditional Jewish religious ritual that takes place around the time of the High Holidays Classically it is performed by grasping a live chicken by the shoulder blades and moving around one�s head three times symbolically transferring one�s sins to the chicken The chicken is then slaughtered and donated to the poor preferably eaten at the pre Yom Kippur feast In modern times Kapparos is performed in the traditional form mostly in Haredi communities The ritual is preceded by the reading of Psalms 107 17 20 and Job 33 23 24  Judaism cont Current religious thinking views the Akedah as central to the replacement of human sacrifice while some Talmudic scholars assert the replacement was the sacrifice of animals at the Temple using Exodus 13 2 12f 22 28f 34 19f Numeri 3 1ff 18 15 Deuteronomy 15 19 others view that as superseded by the symbolic pars pro toto sacrifice of circumcision Leviticus 20 2 and Deuteronomy 18 10 specifically outlaw the giving of children to Moloch making it punishable by stoning the Tanakh subsequently denounces human sacrifice as barbaric customs of Baal worshippers e g Psalms 106 37ff

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Most notably the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement embraced outreach with a passion, conducting nationwide campaigns to introduce Chabad Judaism to unaffiliated Jews, as well as to Jews of other affiliations. This helped ignite the Teshuvah Movement that now attracts thousands of new adherents to Haredi Judaism yearly.

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