Ultra-Orthodox Jews cast out sins ahead of Yom Kippur

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1 年前

STORY: In the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem and in other cities around Israel, religious Jews said prayers as they performed the traditional rite with the birds, which then go to slaughter.

The participants call for forgiveness, symbolically passing their sins to the doomed bird while calling it “my substitute, my atonement”.

The custom is intended to symbolize the cleansing of sins in the build-up to the ‘Day of Atonement’ the period of fasting and prayer that is observed by Jews the world over.