kapparah

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  1. A Jewish custom by which, on the eve of the Day of Atonement, a fowl (a cock for a man and a hen for a woman), alter several passages from the Scriptures treating of atonement, confession, and prayer have been repeated, is moved around the head three times. The following declaration is then repeated: “This is my substitute, this is my commutation, this is my atonement. This cock goeth to death, but I shall be gathered in and walk into a long and happy life and into peace.” The fowl is then killed. This custom is discarded by the reformed Jews, but is still in vogue among the strictly orthodox members of the synagogue.

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  1. Hebrew (Yiddish kappore), from kappar, forgive, cover over, atone. The phrase is kapparoth (Yiddish kappores) shlogen (German schlagen, beat), literally ‘beating the atonement.’
 

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