I don’t and have never done kapparos as a Jew but probably some of my ancestors in Russia did.
Anyway, the ethics of the ceremony aside, this isn’t the first time I see antisemites complain and allege that « the Jews give the chickens their transferred their sins to, to non-Jews. » One person even compared this to smallpox blankets given to Native Americans 🤦♀️
From the little I know about the ceremony, 1) the charities are probably more likely to be Jewish ones 2) many of the chickens would be treif and not fit for donation, which also supports #1 3) Jews in the pale of settlement or some shtetl in Europe certainly didn’t give these chickens to gentiles when there were no gentiles around anyway 4) I guess the people that swing money around their heads and then donate it to gentiles are also giving them bad money with sins transferred to it, thus no need to take it, huh?
What are the facts and what would you say to such a person?
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