Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an illustration of Yom Kippur in a synagogue on New York's Lower East Side. Illustration originally published with the article "In the New York Ghetto" by Katherine Hoffman, Munsey's Magazine.
Rosh Hashanah postcard with text excerpted from the Avodah service on Yom Kippur : "They would kneel and prostrate themselves and give thanks and fall upon their faces."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement. This rooster will go to its death, while I will enter and proceed to a good long life and to peace."
Rosh Hashanah postcard with an excerpt of the Al Chet confession of sins recited during Yom Kippur services : "For the sin which we have committed before You in business dealings."
Anti-Nazi Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot, with Hitler's head in place of the rooster's head. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And a new, sweet year comes / Then we will shlogn kapores / With every one of Hitler's men / With all troubles and afflications."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting charity given on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "In virtue of the charity we give / No matter when, no matter how small or large / Inscribe us God, in the Book of Life / And nevermore may it be erased."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting charity given on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "In virtue of the charity we give / No matter when, no matter how small or large / Inscribe us God, in the Book of Life / And nevermore may it be erased."
Rosh Hashanah postcard by Hayyim Goldberg depicting Motzei Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "The fast is over. We have come from shul / Hearts are full with comfort and hope / We mark a happy New Year / Sitting around the table eating and drinking / "Who distinguishes between sacred..." the gramophone sings / And we breathe cheerfully, freely."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting Birkat Hamazon on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And may God, who we praise and bless / From His hand only bring us our release / Bring us not, God forbid, to the donations of men / To their gifts, to their loans!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard with a Yiddish poem : "For the sins which I have committed - Oh, holy Creator! / I open my heart to you with hope and fear / Oh, Father! May you now forgive my sins / And may you also grant health and life!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "Arise, arise, kapores shlogn! / Either with a rooster or with coins / Look to the East, day is dawning / A new sun illumines the world."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting Birkat Hamazon on Erev Yom Kippur. The postcard includes a Yiddish poem : "And may God, who we praise and bless / From His hand only bring us our release / Bring us not, God forbid, to the donations of men / To their gifts, to their loans!"
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement." In this postcard, the head of the rooster used for kapparot is substituted with the face of Nicholas II of Russia.
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The text from Job 33 is recited before the ritual : "Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom."
Rosh Hashanah postcard depicting the ceremony of kapparot. The following is recited during the ceremony : "This is my exchange, this is my substitute, this is my atonement."
