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Originally Posted by Bruno
And yet Kapparot/Kapores is still practiced, and it still involves the sacrifice of a chicken before Yom Kippur.
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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.
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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.