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Tag: Shlug Kaparos
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A Brief History of a Fowl Custom
Shlomo M. Brody
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Tablet
· 1 Oct 2014
Kapparot, a folk custom originating from the early medieval period, involves waving a chicken over one's head, symbolically transferring sins before its slaughter.