A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
(Hebrew. ‘Atonements’) The practice of transferring an individual’s *sins to a bird. On the eve of the Day of Atonement (*Yom Kippur), a fowl is swung over the head of an individual who prays that by its death, his sins will be forgiven. This ceremony has been abandoned by *Progressive *Jews. (See also *YOM KIPPUR).
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