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Old 02-01-2011, 07:31 PM   #23
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Default Re: [Thaumatology] Real world magical traditions

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Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
And yet Kapparot/Kapores is still practiced, and it still involves the sacrifice of a chicken before Yom Kippur.
It's explicitly not a sacrifice, but described as more of a symbolic sin offering.
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There's Judaism according-to-the-book and then there's Judaism as actually practiced, which in a significant portion of communities still involves some animal sacrifice.
They are always careful to define it as not being called "sacrifice", however. The distinction might not be literally meaningful, but it is symbolically and thaumaturgy is about symbolism.
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