shlogn kapores

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Pronunciations

shlogn kapores (SHLUG-n ka-PUH-riss) listen

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Definitions

  • n. The custom of symbolically transferring one's sins to a chicken (or coins) before Yom Kippur, done by moving the chicken (or coins) in a circle around one's head.

  • v. To symbolically transfer one's sins to a chicken (or coins) before Yom Kippur, done by moving the chicken (or coins) in a circle around one's head.  

  • v. To make oneself feel guilty.

Example Sentences

  • "I watched someone schlogging kapores in Me'ah Shearim."

  • "Focusing on taneysim (fast days), the document consists of forty-plus questions beginning with one about whether people still shlog kaparos (the practice of swinging a chicken or rooster above one's head in order to remit one's sins) on the eve of Yom Kippur." (The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement by Nathaniel Deutsch and S An-Ski) 

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Languages of Origin

  • Textual Hebrew
  • Yiddish

Etymology

  • שלאָגן כּפּרות shlogn kapores 'to perform the pre-Yom Kippur atonement ceremony (as described above)' (verbal stem is שלאָג shlog...)

      • Who Uses This

      • Orthodox: Jews who identify as Orthodox and observe halacha (Jewish law)

      Regions

      • North America
      • Great Britain
      • South Africa

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      Alternative Spellings

      shlogn kapores, schloggen kaporos, shlugn kapures, shlogen kaparot, shlog kapores, schlog kappores, shlog kapores, shlog kaparos, shlog kapares

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