As Mr. Lubin turned the bird in three small circles over her head, his wife read from a laminated card. The practice, called kaporos or kapparot, is meant to transfer a person’s sins to the chicken. “If you’re going to die during the year, maybe the chicken will die instead,” Mr. Lubin said. “It goes to the poor,” Mr. Lubin said of the chicken. “The men have more sins,” Mr. Cohn said.

Source: New York Times October 07, 2016 00:37 UTC