Questions tagged [kaparah-atonement]
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Source for forgiving sins for embarrassment
What’s the source for the idea that you get כפרת עונות when you are embarrassed?
I’m not referring to one being ashamed and embarrassed of sinning, but rather one who randomly gets embarrassed during ...
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In the Sin of the Golden Calf, What was Forgiven?
Rashi (Shemot 32:34) quotes the Talmud (Sanhedrin 102a) and says "וְאֵין פֻּרְעָנוּת בָּאָה עַל יִשְׂרָאֵל שֶׁאֵין בָּהּ קְצָת מִפִּרְעוֹן עֲוֹן הָעֵגֶל - Indeed no punishment ever comes upon ...
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לאו הניתק לעשה Is this still a laa'v for which one needs atonement
Mishnah Makos 3(4) says:
This is the principle: With regard to any prohibition that entails a
command to arise and perform a mitzva, he is not liable to receive
lashes for its violation.
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sex with jewish girlfriend... what are the ways to atone? [closed]
If a Jewish man and his Jewish girlfriend have sex regularly, what is the best way to atone for this? I know that it's kares, but is there any way to atone ?
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Pinchas and the continuing atonement
The Gemara in Sanhedrin 82b interprets the posuk in Bamidbar 25:13 to mean that the atonement Pinchas facilitated, is worthy of continuing to atone forever
The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to Moses: ...
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In what sense "the wicked are ransom for the righteous" Proverb 21:18?
WEB Prov 21:18 The wicked is a ransom for the righteous; the treacherous for the upright.
כֹּ֣פֶר»[shall be] a ransom לַצַּדִּ֣יק»for the righteous רָשָׁ֑ע»The wicked וְתַ֖חַת»the place יְשָׁרִ֣ים»...
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The half shekel and atonement for the soul
In parashas Ki Sissa, G-d instructs Moshe to collect from all the people, half a shekel:
When thou dost take the sum of the children of Yisra᾽el after their
number, then shall they give every man a ...
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Based on Sanhedrin 39a:13 & Rashi commentary on Ezekiel 4:4, how does immobility (motionlessness) atone/cleanse national sins?
Was Yechezkel 4:4 method of Israel's atonement simply : immobility?
Sanhedrin 39a:13
The Holy One, Blessed be He, afflicts Ezekiel in order to cleanse the sins of the Jewish people. God instructed ...
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Personal Fast and Davening
If one is undertaking a personal fast (let's say for teshuvah/kapparah purposes), should one add "Aneinu" to his personal shemoneh esrei at minchah? If one normally says Shalom Rav at Mincha ...
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Why Suspend the Kohen’s Checking of a Chatan with Tzara’at During Sheva Brachot If Becoming a Chatan Forgives Sin?
Rashi dibbur hamatchil וביום on Vayikra 13:14 says the Torah mentions the apparently superfluous word וביום to teach us that there are times when one (a kohen) doesn’t see and inspect the negah found ...
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Marriage clarification!
I was once told, that marriage clears one’s sins, though I doubt it’s that simple.
Could someone please explain to me the actual perimeters. Does it need to be a kosher wedding, does the Chattan and ...
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How were sins atoned for after the destruction of the 1st Temple until the establishment of the 2nd Temple?
This is of course in reference to the period in time during which no Temple stood and when the Babylonian exile occurred.
Do we have any particular reference from Jewish sources, in particular the ...
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Posthumous sacrifices in Maccabees II
In Maccabees 2:12:39-45 (Sefaria Hebrew source. NRSV - if anyone is aware of a better, more Jewishy English translation, please edit it in) it says:
"On the next day, as had now become necessary,...
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Suffering As An Atonement
Is there any source that states explicitly that the יִסּוּרִין, suffering, that a person goes through serves as a כַּפָּרָה, atonement?
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Why did God instituted the Sacrificial system if prayers can atone for sins?
I have often seen Jews saying that prayers and repentance are sufficient for atonement, then why was the animal sacrificial system was started to begin with, and who are the Rabbis responsible for the ...
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What was the spiritual significance of the blood being used as a means of atonement, dedication, and purification?
Blood played a significant role within Israelite Culture ceremoniously and ritualistically. For example (including but not limited to) for confirmation of a covenant, as part of the dedication of the ...
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Why are we allowed to eat flour?
The Torah explicitly says that we may not eat blood because the blood is an essential element in effecting Kaparah (as explained in Vayikra 17:11 among other places):
כִּי נֶפֶשׁ הַבָּשָׂר בַּדָּם ...
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Leviticus 4:20 in most English bible translations use "atonement" which is poor translation of Hebrew's kaphar (cover)
This is a follow-up question to the previous:
Similarity between atonement in Leviticus 4:20 & cover in Genesis 6:14 in terms of semantics, wording/phrasing, lettering/grammer, pronunciation?
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Ten Martyrs - Why would Binyamin be culpable?
There's the famous incident known as the Ten Martyrs (see here), where Ten famous Rabbis were killed (not in the same period) as an atonement for the Ten children of Yaakov selling Yosef.
The ten are ...
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Definiton of Selicha in Tanakh vs. Rabbinic Interpretation
As is par for the course this time of year I'm thinking a lot about the idea of "selicha", coming right off the tails of Yom Kippur and selichot. I'm conflicted about the idea of forgiveness/...
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Does Hashem forgive for ongoing, recurring sins?
Say for example a halalachly uneducated Jew intermarries and then years later realizes the marriage is a Torah violation and has great regret, yet he loves his wife and there are children involved. He ...
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How does one receive forgiveness from someone they have wronged after their death?
Say you sinned against a fellow Jew. You decide you want to seek forgiveness from that person but then discover that person has passed away. G-d forgives sins against Him but man must seek forgiveness ...
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Are we supposed to know which transgressions are light or severe?
I remember learning that we cannot know which commandments are more important than which others -- God gave them all to us and we don't say that we prioritize some over others (aside from the special ...
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Does a person who wets or soils himself during lashes still receive the kapparah?
The punishment of lashes serves as a kapparah (atonement) for a person's aveirah.
1) The Sefer HaChinuch (Mitzvah # 594) writes that the reason for the mitzvah of lashes was to penalize the sinner in ...
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Why would becoming king or kohein gadol exempt one from atoning for past sins?
To atone for certain transgressions, the torah (Vayikra 4) mandates different offerings depending on the status of the person who transgressed. Horayot 3:3, talking about the king or the kohein gadol,...
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What's the point of fasting?
What does fasting do? Is it to put us in a certain mindset? If so how does it do so? Does the pain itself atone? If so, how and why? Or, is there some other reason for fasting?
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Source and etymology of כפירה kefirah ‘heresy’
Can someone inform me of where the word כפירה meaning ‘heresy’ was first used? Mishnah? Talmud? Word is not found in Tanach, apparently. How is it distinguished from other triliteral roots meaning ...
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Why is it that being embarrassed on one sin should atone for all?
Berachos 12b:
אמר רבה בר חיננא סבא משמיה דרב כל העושה דבר עבירה ומתבייש בו מוחלים על כל עונותיו
Rabbah Bar Chinina Sabba said in the name of Rav: Anyone who does a sin and is embarrassed in it,...
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Why is kapparos gender specific while a Korban Chattas for an individual is a female?
There is a Minhag brought in SA OC here to take a chicken on Erev Yom Kippur & perform Kapparos with it. The custom is for a man to take a male chicken while a woman chooses a female chicken to ...
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Marriage: get out of jail free card?
The Yerushalmi (Bikkurim 3:3/11b) says that a chassan has his sins atoned for. This is derived from Esav, who married a woman, the daughter of Yishmael and sister of Navos, named Machalas (Bereishis ...
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Does Passover sacrifice make atonement?
Is Passover lamb (paschal or pesach feast) said to be atonement and not just commemorative of the original Passover sacrifice in Egypt?
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Kapparah for a family member who apostatised
Some of my more notable relatives (all since deceased) apostatised, either to protect themselves during the war or for other similarly non-dogmatic reasons. While of course I would discuss any ...
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Isaiah 53 How does Israel's suffering atone for the sins of the nations?
Isaiah 53:4
Indeed, he bore our illnesses, and our pains-he carried them, yet we accounted him as plagued, smitten by God and oppressed.
דאָכֵן חֳלָיֵנוּ הוּא נָשָׂא וּמַכְאֹבֵינוּ סְבָלָם וַאֲנַחְנוּ ...
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Should you apologize before Yom Kippur for a wrongdoing that is more than a year old?
It is a mitzvah to beg for forgiveness on the eve of Yom Kippur from those you have wronged in the previous year. As I understand it, this is necessary at once as a practical tikkun; as a necessary ...
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Atonement and the Death Penalty
"Ordinary murderers are allowed to achieve atonement for their souls in their execution. Only especially vile murderers - such as a false witness whose lies are discovered after the person who was ...
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Why am I always the last person to finish davening Al Cheit? [closed]
On Yom Kippur, I daven as fast as I possibly can--reading everything in my native language, and with far more speed than kavana--because I know I will have this problem. And yet I still have the ...
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Why does the atonement for impurity in the Temple take so many different forms?
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The Torah forbids entering the mikdash or eating the meat of a korban in a state of impurity (so-called
טומאת מקדש וקדשיו) .
Someone who transgresses in error (beshogeg) gets forgiveness ...
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How can a Jewish convict repair public Chillul Hashem? [closed]
I'm going to use the recent conviction of Sheldon Silver as an example.
Synopsis / Context (esp. since the above link may become a "cobweb" link:
Silver, a 71-year-old veteran lawmaker who was ...
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Kol Nidre: The strangers in their midst
I was reading about Yom Kippur, and I came across this response to the traditional recitation of the Kol Nidre:
"May all the people of Israel be forgiven, including all the strangers who live in ...
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If Yom Kippur Katan has to exist, why isn't it ON Rosh Chodesh?
The practice of Yom Kippur Katan is held on erev Rosh Chodesh (by some) so that we can maintain the element of kapparah essential to Rosh Chodesh but not compromise the celebration of the day by ...
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What do we learn from Miriam's demise being juxtaposed to the Red Heifer?
What precisely does the demise of righteous people atone for, and who gets the atonement?
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In Parshat Chukath - במדבר פרק-כ - we learn from Rashi that the demise of the prophetess Miriam ...
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Why is there a guilt offering and not a sin offering for slander? [closed]
I read this on Chabad.org in its discussion of Parshat Vayikra:
• The different types of “sin offering” (chatat) brought to atone for
transgressions committed erroneously by the high priest, the ...
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Cognitive meaning of כפר
What is the cognitive meaning of the root כפר? It's applications (that I know of, feel free to add) are:
כפיר - lion cub (Shoftim 14:5)
כפר - village (Shmuel 1 6:18)
כופר - Replacement (bamidbar 35:...
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Why not dump the ashes of the para aduma into a huge body of water?
The way I understand it one of the reasons we no longer have the ashes of the para aduma to purify people is because they were used up. I'd like to know if it would have been theoretically possible ...
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What Atones for Which Sins?
At some point I read a very interesting post somewhere about this, but cannot remember where it was or what sources it used (or if they were even reputable). It stated that the spilling of blood in ...
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Sacrificial Calves; Aaron vs. Israel
In the beginning of Leviticus 9, Aaron is commanded to bring a sin offering for himself; a calf. On behalf of the nation, he is commanded to bring another calf, however in this case it is brought as ...
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What was Hevel (Abel's) sin?
The Arizal says that Hevel was reincarnated many times to purify his sin. What was his sin?
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I "stole" an ice cube. What can I do for Kaparah?
Yesterday, I was stung by a bee while walking at the zoo. After icing down the sting for a while, I continued on my way. A few minutes later, however, the bee-sting began to hurt again. I happened ...