The importance of doing KAPUROAS (atonement) with a chicken before Yom Kippur

HH

The highest aspiration for an animal is to be elevated in the function of people who are serving HY. Thus even though I have had liberal friends, who obviously feel that they have more compassion than G-d Almighty and His holy righteous tzadikim, who feel that animals should be afforded old age homes with all the amenities, according to the holy Torah that would basically seal their fate to remain just animals, whereas if they are given over to Human consumption or sacrificed to HY they can rise to an entire higher paradigm for eternity. Thus it kaparoas are a great opportunity for chickens to escape and rise in the devotion of HY.

The workings of Kaparoas are explained by the Ramchal in his Kitzur Hakavanos (abridged intentions) for Erev Yom Kippur:

קיצור הכוונות לרמח"ל

סדר ערב יום הכפורים

הנה בערב יום הכיפורים נשלמת נסירת החיצוניות של נוקבא, ובו ננסרים הוד יסוד ומלכות דנוקבא. והנה היסוד נקרא גבר, ובו מתקבצות כל הגבורות ביחד, וכדי למתק אותו לוקחים תרנגול שנקרא גבר, ושוחטין אותו באשמורת, שהוא זמן שליטת החסד, ומוציאים ממנו דמו בסוד גבורה, ובזה נמתק. ואין הכונה ליתנו לעניים, כי תכליתו אינו זה, אלא להוציא ממנו דמו באשמורת, אך מי שרוצה ליתן - תבא עליו ברכה, כי צדקה עשה. והוא דוגמת השעיר המשתלח, אלא שהשעיר להיות הבחינה היותר קרובה אל הקלפיות - דוחין אותו לחוץ, וזה - שהוא קרוב אל הקדושה, מתמתק ונכלל בקדושה.

נ נח נחמ נחמן מאומן

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!

Use the Rabbis for Kapparos

HH

How many times have we heard the ridiculous claim that men shouldn't leave their wives and families to go to Uman for Rosh Hashana. The problem is that our lives have become so mundane and bereft of meaning that Rosh Hashana conjures up just another holiday to be spent with the family, and an extra hour in the synagogue. Once, even the misnagdem had trepidation even by hearing the word elul - the month preceding Rosh Hashana. Such an awesome day when HY is coronated as King (the actual coronation takes place of course in Uman), and everything is judged, every fraction of pain and pleaser, life and death, wealth and poverty etc.. If we had any conception whatsoever how critical a judgment this is, we would be running to Uman to Rabbainu, no quibling...

Now, before Yom Kippur we are strongly recommended to do Kapparos with a chicken as a redemption to our soul, kapparos are even done for the fetus in the mother's stomach -- and since it is unknown if the fetus is male of female, two chickens are used, male and female. So obviously this isn't based solely on the merit of the sins of a person, but on a higher scale of the true standing of one's soul in the general scheme of HY's master plan. This little ceremony has become a mass produced assembly line procedure, so B"H let us thank the fraudulent leaders and other sensationalists for raising our conscious on this issue. Before doing the kapparos think, how is your soul different than a chicken?! Why should the chicken die for your soul?! And immediately realize that the chicken does not and cannot ask this quesion, and that itself is the answer, and proceed to do the kapparos. The chicken was going to die eventually anyway, everything in this world does, it will now miss out on a year of pecking in the dirt, but will have achieved a higher purpose and meaning -- protecting the well-being of a Jewish soul. Both will have now achieved a huge rectification. Balk at going through with the kapparos, and both will G"F be reduced to dirt peckers, and alas the rabbis and social activists will have won the equal rights they are so set upon, while garnishing their new honor and power over their flock.

There is great gravity to our existence, many people in the world suffer enormously HY, and almost everyone suffers to some degree, and there is the future generation, and the future world. There are responsabilities and fatal reckoning. In the drop of a hat - or a dime, one's life can be turned around for the good or the better. Serious stuff.

Na Nach Nachma Nachman MeUman!