Is There A Problem With Doing Chicken Kaparot Before Yom Kippur? (12 Minutes)

[Music] it's an old me uh where uh in essence it's supposed to be somewhat of a uh um a commemoration of what they used to do in the bet mikdash when somebody made a sin and it wasn't on purpose was an accidental sin then they would bring a k they would bring a sacrifice to the BET mikdash and they would sacrifice they would Slaughter the cow or sheep or Dove or whatever it was chicken whatever it was they would Slaughter it um and the reason why is not because hasem would do anything with these cows or chickens or doves or anything but in essence what it's supposed to do is that it's supposed to remind the person that sinned that in reality if Hashem would judge them like they deserve it would be them being slaughtered and not the cow so it's a gruesome process it's scary to see a cow such a big cow getting slaughtered uh unless you have I don't know no nerves or something so uh the chickens they do today in a commemoration of that there's a few problems with this chicken with the chicken thing number one Rya said that many times the people that are slaughtering the chickens are not careful because they know that no one's going to end up eating the chicken and even if someone that's eating the chicken it's not the person that bought the chicken that's using as a kapai it's somebody else doesn't know anything you know it's usually a poor person so the people that are slaughtering the chickens are not as careful as when they are slaughtering meat to sell you know in stores and so on so the chicken the the knife that they're using could be pagum it could be a non- kosher knife it could be a knife that's damaged a little bit and if the knife is damaged even a little bit and the chicken feels even an ounce of pain it instead of being a you know some kapar it's now you've turned a kosher chicken into a Neva you've made a sin it ruins the whole thing there's no K there's no nothing that's one thing second thing is is that some people don't like this Mitzvah some of the sages don't like the Mitzvah because most people don't eat the chicken the chicken goes to waste so this is this is waste this is a wasteful behavior and actually some people that are that hate Judaism and unfortunately they're usually Jews they hate Judaism they look for ways to embarrass the Jewish communities so they go to Jewish communities and they take pictures of all these mountains of chickens that are going to the garbage say look at this community of how wasteful they are and this so-called mitvah turns into a you look online you'll see there's a bunch of pictures online of how these communities have you know garbage Fells full of chickens that no one wants to eat and it's disgusting and it's a big it's desecrating of hm's name that's another reason why people don't like this the sages don't like this mitvah oh this mean uh another thing is that raim again said that he learned from his R is that in reality it's not an honest thing you're saying that you know your aono your sins um should go into this chicken or you know this chicken should be a sacrifice for your aot but in reality if it was really fair you'd have a farm of cows full of Aon not just one chicken this chicken is not enough to contain all your Aon all your sins uh so it's a in reality it's it's not it's not so uh not such an honest thing still it's a some people still hold by it some people still like it the ideal thing that most people most opinions hold by is that it's better for you to donate money uh between $18 to $26 per person towards Torah either Torah of somebody learning Torah or somebody getting other people to learn toah whatever you want kiru or someone that's learns T and you have to you should donate between $8 to $26 which is a approximately the value of a meal uh in America in Israel it's like 20 shekels uh so it's much cheaper than here but either way we work in dollars in America and such as life um so if you have let's say for example a mother with uh four kids then and a husband so it's six people so it would be 6 time 18 or 6 time 26 whichever one you want and you would donate that but you have to do before yip not after Yip before Yip so this is the ideal thing because even if you like the Minag of the chicken there's still going to be much more benefits of donating the money to its Torah because the chicken is just in essence you're the only one the benefits out of it if there's any benefit at all if everything is kosher and everything else whereas the Tora let's say for example you donate $100 for you and let's say four other people donate $100 $100 let's say SP CDs out of the 100 CDs let's say 80 of them are thrown in the garbage 80 people get them but they don't listen to them 80 of them go into garbage so there's 20 left 20 people actually listen to the CD out of the 20 people that listen to the CD one person one person did chuva in reality it's much higher but let's say one person out of every hundred CDs actually did chuva each person that does chuva you just inherited 300 worlds worlds Ina for each person each person does chuva every single mitvah he does the rest of his life goes into your account also each person does chuva real chuva comes back to Hashem as a result of the CD the $1 that you sponsored which was a h hundred but in reality $1 really worked each person is 310 worlds 3 10 worlds so this is why the CDs are a amazing investment for anyone that understands what they what they're able to do people put a CD they do chuva people sometimes they don't even listen to the whole CD they listen to one or two lectures and they watch the rest of it online the CD is like a a marketing flyer each one has 30 40 hours of Torah and many people listen to all of it but they also listen to the stuff online we're going to have an app soon we're going to have also a TV station soon we have a new website a lot of things are happening right now a lot of great things are happening so we're giving people a lot of thing a lot of opportunities to get the Tora but to get people to that TV station to get people to even know that the application exists to get people to go to the YouTube channel or to the website more times than not starts with somebody else sponsoring a CD why cuz the guy looks at a picture CD looks kind of cool he puts it in the car what's the worst that could happen I don't like it I eject it I throw it out of the car they put the CD the guy likes it next thing you know he's listening to the shoe instead of Music he's listening to sh instead of all this other nonsense in the world he starts listening he starts understanding he starts doing chuva next thing you know the guy does next thing you know he starts keeping Shabbat start keeping culture a lot of things can happen a lot of things can happen so this is why anyone that really cares about investment Ina they should if in my opinion whatever my opinion is worth one cent two cents three cents whatever it's worth I wouldn't do anything with my money other than invest in kiru in my opinion I know a little bit about Investments I spent almost 20 years dealing with Investments and so I know how to evaluate Investments I think and I personally wouldn't do anything other than invest in K simply because based on return nothing else can compare now as an organization we invest in multiple types of K we invest in the apps and the uh in the movies and the CDs we even have that we send money to every month in because we learn their Torah they help it they teach and so on and so forth there's a lot of things that the organization of does um but ultimately if I had to let's say for example invest in I don't know in uh stock or in kiru or invest in a business or in kiru or invest even in a seph Tor a scroll of Torah or in kiru or in anything in the world whatever you want pick an investment doesn't make a difference whether it's holy or not holy whether it's Jewish or not Jewish anything else for in my opinion everything pales comp in comparison cuz even if the success ratio is low and it's 1% success ratio which is abnormally low usually the success ratio is closer to 20 25% but let's say it's 1% 1% one CD out of 100 you already I'm telling you I have you look at my phone and have emails and messages every sing day of people telling me that they changed their life one woman uh yesterday the day before wore a wig her whole life sent me a text said I after watching your uh your videos I decided to take out take off the uh wig and wear K from now on because I know that everything you're saying is true it is AB and despite the fact that I bought a brand new wig for a few thousand dollar a day before a day before for I watch your video I'm throwing it in the garbage another person sends me a thing like I started keeping Shabbat another guy told you guys a story about the Marine he's in the middle of War right now he's doing CH he's in the middle of war in Afghanistan somewhere he's doing chuva different people every single day there's Amazing Stories so kiru Works team AEM Works non-stop they spread the Torah whether it's through CDs or through Facebook or to different other things a lot of good things happening so if you telling me invest in this versus a chicken I don't care if the chicken starts talking you understand even if the chicken starts talking says you know what yeah yeah I'm I'm your I'm your sins I'm everything don't worry I'll take your s chicken starts talking start saying kadish I still I still invest [Music]