By COLlive reporter
Crown Heights is not known for agriculture or farms, yet chickens in the chassidic neighborhood in Brooklyn just got more affordable.
The National Committee for Furtherance of Jewish Education (NCFJE) has just announced that the cost of Kapparos this year has just gotten lower.
Local real estate boss Rabbi Dovid Fischer, who was involved in last year’s Kapparos as well, has made a last minute gift bringing the price of Kapparos for residents of Crown Heights down to $4.00.
“I am very happy that we have received this gift so that we are able to help ease some of the Yom Tov burden for Crown Heights families,” says NCFJE Chairman Rabbi Shea Hecht.
Fischer’s donation follows that of diamond kingpin Moshe Gad and property owner and Crown Heights native, Yossi Popack.
Amounts are limited and will be available on a first come first served basis, Hecht notified.
DATE & TIMES
Wednesday, October 5, 2:00 – 8:00 PM, in front of 824 Eastern Parkway. $4
Thursday, October 6, 6:00 PM (shechita begins 10:00 PM), in front of 824 Eastern Parkway. Correction: Price TBA
$13
Where does it say in Halacha to do it any other time, other than early Erev Yom Kippur? Where does it say in Halacha that a family must spend such large sums? In those days you caught or bought a chicken for peanuts. No transportation costs. No handlers to pay. Would you ask a Rov this shailah? Probably (certainly) not, for fear of the answer. (Yes, you are emotionally involved, in more than a Chagas way.) What does name-calling and trashing show about the person indulging in such, and the validity of their considered logic and Torah ruach of Yiras… Read more »
Torontonians pay $14-15 per chicken.
In North Miami Beach there doing kapparos for $18 look up David Gold in the list to get more info
Kol hakovod to you and wish you and your family a guter ziser gebenchte yohr.
I ordered kaporos in London from Yisroel Russel for £12.50 = $18
or you goyishe hergeyshim
the rama clearly writes to do kapporos with a chicken, this was also the costom of the ari z”l as well as all chassidishe and askinazik jews.
the Story is as follows,
the rosh yeshiva swung a student over the entire chicken truck…
can they also pay for our daled minim……..
i wouldnt mind getting a esrog for $4
Here it cost $1500.00 for kaporos per chicken. Chickens only cost 75¢. Maybe because I’m the only one doing it I have to cover plane tickets for the shochet. But still he doesnt have to use Jet Blue, let him use Spirit Air. I want my 4 bucks from NCFJE
wish someone would do it in London. chickens are $25 each hear……
If u can’t afford it, buy 1 male and 1 female and use it for all your children.
I personally share my chicken with my boys, and get 1 female for my wife and daughters.
im doing Kappores with A hot Dog and a Diet coke
Buy two chickens for the entire family, one male and one female and just say the prayer nusach in plural (for example: ” this is our atonement – zeh kaparateinu…”) Words of wisdom from Miami
sounds like u r a representative from the animal rights people. nice try. who is teaching u all this stuff, or r u an animal rights activits among us? I’m so glad we’re getting a break, but even if we didn’t, i would do it just because MY Rebbe did it!
A big yasher koach to you!!!!!!
Halacha of kapporos, look it up, there needs to be no shame in doing kapporos together, then having someone pay/sponcer/chipin in your Kappara
The story goes like this: The Rosh Yeshiva lifted up one bochur and swung him around over the entire zal while saying: This is what happens when you miss seder.
I’ve often heard about a Rosh Yeshiva swinging 1 bird wide over an entire zal & making them all yotzi on that 1 rooster
1. This is a minhag. The Bais Yosef was against it (the chickens). 2. It is supposed to be done before dawn on Erev Yom Kippur. 3. It can be done with money. 4. It isn’t about chickens. It is about an “eyss ratzon”. So it stands to reason that doing it at the right time with money, is better than doing it at the wrong time with a chicken. 5. Yeah, yeah, it’s more feeling doing it with a chicken. But that is really superficial “spirit”; and Chabad only concedes to the superficial (avoda etc) when the deep levels… Read more »
family of 9 and pregnant mom…do the math!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i think this year we will sponsor a poor families seudah hamafsekes instead…. i would rather give a family 300 bucks
True, but even more priceless would be to follow our Chaza”l’s preferred way – with a chicken
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In Cincinnati Ohio it is also $25 but the cost of living hear is less then 25% of NY
thank you R. dovid fisher for your generosity there are many big families that need this…yasher koach…thank you.
Out of towners we host so many people for yom tov, it’s costing us thousands of dollars bh. Bh for the generosity of the donors, we get a small break from the enormeous ty expenses
In Miami, as far as I remember from previous years, it’s 25 dollars! .
you can always do it with money going to tzodokoh.
18 quarters will do it. Total price $4.50.
ditto
here its £25 a chickenn!! which is about $38
I think Postville (used to have) $0.50 chickens
I believe the price is only for the chicken, the shochet has to be paid separately. When comparing to other cities need to know if they have the same arrangement, or if the shochet’s pay is included.
Kapparos is 18+ a chicken. That’s truly not affordable for most large families. In the kosher market, chickens are more than half of that price….
Ask Dayan Raskin Shlita but you my be able to appoint a shliach and get the $4 deal in NY.
there will be kaporos wednesday and thursday but the $4 price is only wednesday.
anyone know how much it is on Thursday?
In the flyer here it says $4 “Wednesday only”. But in the articule here it says that Thursday is ALSO $4.
A Stira!
Other communities are charging an exorbitant fee for kaporos eg Chicago – Tuesday $13.50 or Erev Yom Kippur $24 ($18 for two or more). Can Shea arrange for all anash to be subsidized?
Crown Heights should not be complaining, In London £18 per chicken = $30 a chicken!
The article says $4 for both Wednesday and Thursday but the sign says “Wednesday Only”. In the past, the cheap price did not apply to the night before erev yom kippur.
COL, please verify if $4 applies to Thursday as well.
Yasher koiach.
finally something normal in c”h