kapparah

[ Sephardic Hebrew kah-pah-rah; Ashkenazic Hebrew kah-paw-ruh ]

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noun

, Hebrew.

, plural kap·pa·roth, kap·pa·rot [kah-pah-, rawt], kap·pa·ros [kah-, paw, -, r, ohs].

a ritual performed by some Orthodox Jews before Yom Kippur that consists of swinging a fowl around the head and reciting prayers that symbolically transfer the person's sins to the fowl.

kappārāh literally, atonement

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