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.
Black-and-white engravings depicting blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah at the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam, above, and Yom Kippur at the Ashkenazi Obbene Shul in Amsterdam, below. Engraving by Claude Du Bosc after Bernard Picart. From The Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World : together with historical annotations and several curious discourses... Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates designed by Mr. Bernard Picart, and curiously engraved by most of the best hands in Europe..., Volume 1, published London: William Jackson and Claude Dubosc, 1733-1739.
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."
