The kaporos ceremony at the Jewish Community of Dnipro this year will be held on Saturday (after Havdalah), September 19, starting at 8:30 PM at 1a Menachem Mendel Schneerson Street (entrance through the upper gate).
As Rabbi Reuven Kaminezki informed our website, the purchase of chickens and roosters for the ceremony will take place at the site of the ceremony. The cost of one bird this year is expected to be 250 hryvnias.
On the eve of Yom Kippur, according to Kabbalah and the Talmud, the Almighty shows special mercy to His people, and it is precisely at this time that the kaporos ceremony is held.
For kaporos, it is customary to take a rooster for a man and a hen for a woman. For a pregnant woman, it is customary to take three birds – two hens and one rooster.
One should by no means think that kaporos actually atones for sins. The fate of this bird compels a person to reflect on their behavior and to repent of their sins before the Almighty and before people.
More details about the essence and rules of the kaporos ceremony can be read in the 12th issue of the publication “Dalet Amot,” which is available on our website in the “Texts” section.
