Traditional butcher, "Shochet", Deutsch, preserves the ancient ritual of "Kapparot" just a few days before Yom Kippur at the Mahane Yehuda Market. Jerusalem, Israel. 24-September-2012.

Practicing Jews perform Kapparot before Yom Kippur swinging a live chicken three times above their head, passing to it their sins and butchering it, thus purifying themselves.

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