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Shulchan Arukh, Orach Chayim 605

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605 ‎[1] **“The custom of “*kapprot***” **(atonement ceremony) on the Eve of Yom Kippur” - Containing one paragraph.**

The custom regarding the “*kapparah*” (atonement ceremony) on the Eve of Yom Kippur by slaughtering a rooster for each male and to say biblical verses over it should be stopped.

Hagah*: There are some *geonim* who listed this custom (as a proper custom) and likewise many of the *aḥronim* listed it thusly. And likewise it is the custom in all these lands,. and it is not to be changed because it is a custom of the pious. It is customary to take a rooster for each male, and for each female (to) take a hen, (בית יוסף בשם תשב״ץ). For a pregnant woman to take two roosters for the possibility she might give birth to a male (infant). The (custom is to) chose white roosters since it says “though your sins be as scarlet they shall be as white as snow,” (Isaiah 1:18). It was customary to give the atonement chickens to the poor or to redeem them (replace them) with charity money which is given to the poor (for sustenance), (מהרי״ל). There are places where it is customary to visit the graves and to increase (the giving of) charity which is all a beautiful custom. It is necessary to slaughter the atonement chickens immediately after completing the ceremony and laying one’s hands on it like (it was done with) the Sacrifice; and they (it is customary) throw their intestines on the roofs or in a courtyard, a place from where fowls are able to take (the intestines of the slaughtered chickens), (טור).

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Version: Hilkhot Yom ha-Kippurim, trans. by Jan M. Brahms. HUC, 1976

Source: http://library.huc.edu/pdf/theses/Brahms_Jan_M-CN-Rab-1976_rdf.pdf

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