In spite of the insistence by many liberal Reform Jews that since animal sacrifices are no longer possible to absolve them of their sins, they only need to give to "charitable" groups like ACORN, Planned Parenthood and the ACLU (ha), many Orthodox Biblical Jews still maintain certain customs in this endeavor during Yom Kippur.
One is called tashlich where they go to a body of water and throw bread crumbs (sins) on the water to rid them of heir sins (Ecclesiastes 11:1). Another is called kapparah, where a person takes a live chicken and wrings its neck as a sin sacrifice. Of course the liberal Obama Jews think that these practices are backward and superstitious as opposed to things like abortion and gay rights which are progressive.
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I thought sacrifices under the Levitical system were only done by the Levitical priests, many details of which are explained in Leviticus. Can you further clarify?
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