Posted on 09/14/2013 7:06:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
If this is their religious practice, then leave them alone. It's not like we don't kill billions of chickens every single year.
The government has no business telling them how to conduct their religion until they start sacrificing people, the way liberals do babies.
Soooo... Anyone who has killed a chicken grabs them by the feet and whips them around a few times before setting the head on the chopping block - it settles the bird, it is dizzy and disoriented, so it is still on the block for a moment, and the killing blow can be administered accurately...
So what is the terrible difference in this ritual, the prayer?
Meanwhile California attempts to allow nurses only to abort babies. So our policy will be national outrage over dead chickens, but far more access to slaughter human babies.
Warped world IMO.
>>”It is of utmost importance to treat the chickens humanely” >>>>>> They are waving the chickens over their head symbolic of wringing their necks.
What I told you is the original way to kill a chicken for food on the farm. It is quick and humane. The first swing (not wave) and the chicken's neck is broken and it is dead.
My father would then pull the chickens head off, my mother would cut it off with a knife.
If this offends you then you should stay off the farm and buy your chickens at the meat market.
Hey pal, I grew up on a farm and we raised and slaughtered chickens.
Did you read the link? They are not killing the birds as they swing them nine times in total over their heads. The slaughter is done afterwards. The claim is that somehow by holding and swinging the birds by their wings it is less traumatic for them than swinging them by their feet. They are most clearly not swinging them by their necks.
Going down to see the slaughter of animals that are eaten for meat is probably a good thing to do (though gross, yes) in terms of keeping them grounded and appreciative.
Subjecting the birds to all those do si dos is just unnecessary and unkind.
Good grief! Let’s not scare the chickens!
He’ll really get upset when the Temple is up and running.
Well, one is taxed, while the other is not.
The non-taxed version must, of course be stopped.
First they wanted to stop circumcision. Now they want to stop chicken flicking. We are on a slippery slope. The next big libtard campaign is going to be very sharp knife control.
I can see it now:
I have no objection to using knives for legitimate culinary purposes, such as spreading peanut butter on bread or carving turkeys on Thanksgiving. I enjoy watching those sushi chefs do their stuff. But when it comes to ritual mutilation of perfectly good penises, or slaughtering innocent birds, or gangland fights, we have to draw the line somewhere, and we already outlawed guns (we didn’t do that yet? oh, damn. I’m premature).
Our U.S. Constitution guarantees the rights of human beings—not animals. Any who don’t like the law of our land should go back to the Europe that their families came from so recently.
I’m not Jewish, but...
If you (the reader) want moral self-improvement, don’t eat flesh torn or cut from a living animal, but don’t rob or persecute people by way of the animal rights pretense or any other false accusation, false implication, gossip or implied exaggeration. That kind of robbery precedes punishment for the whole world of nations (all) with exceptions for only a very few people.
Better to be saving the untaxed chickens than kids who are about to be aborted. They think more of the lives of chickens than kids.
Shouldn't the argument then be to stop the whirling birds before SHTF?
I ears on KFI that the charity that they said they gave the chickens to received nothing and that most of the dead chickens went into the garbage.
That is terrible, to waste the lives of the chickens in that way. I have a bad feeling that happened in my neighborhood as well. Then the whole purpose of the kapporos is completely lost.
I know. There were some MAJOR discrepancies between what the (weirdo veggie lib complainer gathered correctly) evidence was and what the people putting up the tent said.
While the non Orthodox Jews have to work hard on bringing more Judaism into their lives, some orthodox need to work hard on actually living the Judaism they study all day. This sounds like it was more of a money operation - during the holiest week of the year. Kind of missing the point.
My one son who went to chabad school did have kapparot performed on him. No problem. But me? Give me a good old taschlich anytime.
Yeah, tashlich is fun here. The police close down the Van Wyck access ramp from Jewel Avenue and everyone from miles around comes to do tashlich on Willow Lake in Flushing Meadow Park. I enjoy getting a better view of the waterfowl than I can usually get just from the road.
That would be fun. It’s even fun here with all the different stripes of Jews showing up together at the pier. All the different rabbis! From lubavich to reconstructionist ( always female - I believe if any men join the denomination they go beyond circumcision all the way to full castration, lol!). And everything in between.
I had the great pleasure to attend Dennis Prager’s services. Very meaningful. He is a gem.
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