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Kaparot to do or not to do.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
--- Quote from: Kahane-Was-Right BT on September 08, 2013, 11:19:59 AM ---Vilna Gaon was against it, right? Saying it was a practice of the Emorites if I remember correctly.
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according to the Vilna Gaon, kaparot would constitute darchei ha'Emori since the ritual had previously been practiced by idol worshippers. R. Karp notes that according to his thesis, one would have to conclude that the Vilna Gaon was opposed to kaparot; a conclusion that he is reluctant to accept.
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/716149#
Kahane-Was-Right BT:
--- Quote from: Tag-MehirTzedek on September 08, 2013, 01:08:41 PM ---
according to the Vilna Gaon, kaparot would constitute darchei ha'Emori since the ritual had previously been practiced by idol worshippers. R. Karp notes that according to his thesis, one would have to conclude that the Vilna Gaon was opposed to kaparot; a conclusion that he is reluctant to accept.
http://www.yutorah.org/lectures/lecture.cfm/716149#
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The part in bold is the kind of thinking that makes no sense to me. It's pretty obvious that when he calls a practice a custom of the Emorites and says that idol worshippers used to do it, he is against the practice. Why else would he say such things? Why some people are so "reluctant" to accept what is obviously the reality is surprising to me.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
--- Quote from: Kahane-Was-Right BT on September 08, 2013, 01:54:56 PM ---The part in bold is the kind of thinking that makes no sense to me. It's pretty obvious that when he calls a practice a custom of the Emorites and says that idol worshippers used to do it, he is against the practice. Why else would he say such things? Why some people are so "reluctant" to accept what is obviously the reality is surprising to me.
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Probably because the Gra didn't directly write about it (or it seems to me that he didn't). Read the papers their were others who directly said against it including the RambaN and (maybe ironically) the Shulhan Aruch (which many who claim to only follow it do it today as well, some with $ instead though). But on the other hand their were Geonim who mentioned this soo this was an earlier practice soo perhaps not necessarily a problem.
Conclusion (for now) I don't know.
Tag-MehirTzedek:
Some more sources (for and against)
(for) http://www.dailyhalacha.com/Display.asp?PageIndex=&ClipID=2384
(against) https://www.facebook.com/RabbiYosefMizrachi/posts/10151879747219248"
http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/search?q=Kapparos
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