Kapparot

Kapparot (Hebrew: כפרות, Ashkenazi transliteration: Kapporois, Kapores) is a customary atonement ritual practiced by some Orthodox Jews on the eve of Yom Kippur. This is a practice in which either money is waved over a person's head to try and transfer the sins of the person and then donated to charity, or else a chicken is waved over the head to try and transfer said person's sins and then slaughtered in accordance with halachic rules and donated to the hungry.^[1]