Yom Kippur: The Meiri Uncovers the Rationale of Kaparos and How Much Money To Give

this torah class is brought to you by torahanytime.com kipper menageralis to do kapariz firstly let's discuss what is the reasoning of is here the person didn't have era and many are noice to do kappas with a chicken or with money why do we shack the chicken what is the concept of kaphara is the meiri writes in the chuva in myanmar-based parques that in his opinion it's kadeela it's in order to inspire in order to arouse a fear in the imadin he says it's to frighten a person when he sees himself and all of his family has to undergo this procedure for their avails and we look at what is done to the behemoth and we think this should be done for us the point of that is to shake us up a little bit and to stir us and to make us realize what what a person is potentially liable for says the amiri is kadela haridai lahayer leif adam bichuva if we are if we do chuba hashem hashem will overturn the klola bracha and he will be korea gazar di na dineno and amazing if you look in the such maharivaya and simon which is quoted in the character and simultaneous of cotton base he says we take the chicken for the caparies and what we do to the chicken is arba misa's best and we do skila and what way do we do skill at the time of the shrita we turn the behemoth over we turn it upside down clapey mata that an effect is like a skila herreg is shutter kimashimae the shafting of the chicken likewise we take some of the feathers we burn some of the feathers which is a remus to the srafa and before the shrita we take the fingers we take our fingers and we put around the neck of the chicken to his ramest to the miso of chanek it says marie vail yashev and because if a person has a xzera on them in in order to remove zera you have to give the something so this is a replacement of what could have potentially been incurred by the person themselves but the the purpose miri writes is kadela harido it's to instill a pachadhaden in into our hearts to put us in the proper frame of mind as we approach the imadin so a common question is how much money should a person give toward kapharas if they don't do so with the chicken many have a min to do capparis with money how much money should be given and this question is not um addressed specifically in other words the paiskim do not give a specific amount of money that a person would be obligated to give toward kaparis in the safer cove it's he brings that vein he brings on page reshape there's no specific shear in other words khazal have not legislated how much the kappas should be he says a person should evaluate and be meshier the value of kaphara is to be for the the fascists of his bias in other words there is no specific legislated amount but rather al kopanam it should be shir khashov it should be a sheer hush of a significant uh amount something that has substance so we can't say whether it's one dollar or it's fifty dollars we don't have a a legislative amount it's reasonable that it would be something that is a hush for each person luffy majasam and that amount one should at least envision that one is giving that money as a pidyon for what they possibly may have incurred in other words even if a person is not using a chicken and they're not shakting a chicken and they're not doing dal and miso on a chicken but the idea of giving the money is you're giving the money as a pidgin and envision of what a person is and this should help us instill the proper ima and pakha hadin and all of our families and children you've just experienced another torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com