So fix it, dear Henry.
from DovBear et al by DovBear
Spotted on Edgeware (A UK-Charedi bulliten board)Are you travelling to Israel for Succos? Do you have spare luggage capacity? Due to the amount of chickens used for 'kaporos' before Yom Kippur, there is an acute shortage of eggs in Yerusholayim, Bnei Brak and Kiryat Sefer over Succos. Many large families may have to do without this basic necessity without our help. Special casing and customs clearance will be provided. Please contact us if you are able to help.Call me a wide-eyed romantic, but I have another idea. How's about you in Israel follow the old, and original custom of your place, (not to mention the ruling of Israel's greatest halachist) AND SKIP THE CHICKEN SHLUGGING ALTOGETHER?Then, nobody needs to go without eggs.
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I agree.
It is merely customary to use a chicken for kapparot. These Israeli Jews can still fulfill the mitzvah of kapparot by using money. How can parents choose fulfilling a custom over providing a fundamental necessity to their children?
First of all, this entire situation is hilarious. Secondly, it's kind of depressing. It's part of a pattern that is becoming more and more prominent, especially with increased modernization in the past few decades. Religion is very much dependent on the environment in exists in. For example, there used to be a fish that produced a dye used for talits. Now, that fish is extinct, and talits have evolved to reflect this. Given this evolution of religious observance, why can't people learn to evolve tradition to suit basic logic?
I honestly think that this guy is off his crunch. To ask people from outside of Israel to sumuggle in eggs into the holy land is a little ridiculous. If there is a serious shortage of eggs in Israel during the time of the high holidays, DON'T DO KAPAROT WITH CHICKENS. Use a bag of money instead. I think that swinging a dead chicken around your head is weird anyways, it probably smells too.
BUT, if it is really necessary to do this mitzvah in the traditional way, like i like to say 'man up' and learn to live without eggs for a few weeks.
I believe that the person who wrote this post is being ridiculous. To ask people to ship eggs to Israel from accross the continenent when there are other alternatives is ridiculous. Even if it is a family's tradition to use chickens to do caparot, perhaps they can sacrifice a year of tradition in the name of charity. If more people decided to do their caparot with money this year, poor people would not only receive more eggs but they would also receive the money used in the caparot through charity. Instead of encouraging people to send eggs, I think the blog's author should be encouraging people in Israel to do their caparot with money instead.
I also think that the Israelis who are suffering from not having enough eggs should use money instead of chickens. It is only a custom to use chickens, and if you are fulfilling the mizvah by using money, then why bother depriving your family of necessities like eggs when you don't have to. Also, even though bringing these people eggs would be very nice and all, I think that it is kind of ridiculus.
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