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Is PETA anti-semitic?
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Zelhar on October 07, 2008, 12:10:00 PM ---I think that the Kapparot slaying must be stopped. I wish it was forbidden by law. it is utterly disgusting wasteful foreign custom. It is not a real Jewish minhag but a foreign and superstitious one.
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Maybe you've never actually seen it done and only read reports about it. I just saw about a hundred people do this ritual and not a single chicken was harmed.
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
Zelhar, I also don't know how you can call schecting a chicken a "slaying" ? Is it a 'slaying' when you have chicken soup? This isn't any different except the chicken is elevated even more beforehand and you do a little atonement with it.
Ulli:
I have butchered by myself. My Uncle did it weekly on his small farm near Hannover.
I think the success of this Peta-clowns is founded in our seperation from the natural world. If you never see the butchering, only the steaks, it is unusual for you.
Another point is that this sick leftists people humanize animals. Hollywood has twisted the people totally. There was i.e. a movie with a speaking piglet.
They are unable to get the great distance between us and i.e. a piglet. So this evil PETA people accept that humen will die in order to save a few apes from medical tests.
It has become a sick world.
Zelhar:
@Muman: I know that tefilin is from the bible it wasn't my point, I said that the rabbis who are afraid to cancel the Kapparot minhag do so for fear that it would lead to people 'canceling' real mitzvas like tefilin. Anyway I don't think people have the right to come out with man made minhagim that involve slaying innocent animals (If they did this minhag with cockroaches that would be fine by me).
@KWRBT: The chickens used for kapparot are often slain by untrained individuals and the carcasses are not always used for food.
Why can't they all use inanimate objects like Tzvi's rabbi had suggested using money, is it really necessary to kill animals for this ritual ?
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Zelhar on October 07, 2008, 04:32:22 PM ---
@KWRBT: The chickens used for kapparot are often slain by untrained individuals and the carcasses are not always used for food.
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A shochet is supposed to properly slaughter the chickens and yes it is given to the poor. In some places like Meah Sharim, you can have it shechted right in front of you. These people are scrupulous in mitzvot, especially the kind like this, they aren't going to hack it up for no reason and certainly not publicly break the rules of slaughter. Some people get it shechted in front of them checked to make sure it's kosher, de feathered, and then they can eat it themselves (if the money they purchased it with goes to tzedaka).
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