I like the image the phrase "beat the chicken" conjures up. Kind of like "choke the chicken." Years ago on a conference call with a woman who ran a 24-hour shop (medical records at a large medical center) she complained about the third shift slouching off -- she didn't want them sitting around all night "flogging the log". Two of us fell off our chairs. The third didn't get the reference. Adler, who got it, claiming he couldn't hear her, asked her to repeat herself...
-bwg
"Beat The Chicken" means exactly as it sounds: You beat the chicken until it is dead. It is a sacrifice. Most synagogues here, no longer do this or let their do it. Somehow, it seems ridiculous to let people kill chickens in such a horrible way, yet the same people are proud of the way they slaughter them "humanely" at other times.
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I like the image the phrase "beat the chicken" conjures up. Kind of like "choke the chicken." Years ago on a conference call with a woman who ran a 24-hour shop (medical records at a large medical center) she complained about the third shift slouching off -- she didn't want them sitting around all night "flogging the log". Two of us fell off our chairs. The third didn't get the reference. Adler, who got it, claiming he couldn't hear her, asked her to repeat herself...
-bwg
"Beat The Chicken" means exactly as it sounds: You beat the chicken until it is dead. It is a sacrifice. Most synagogues here, no longer do this or let their do it. Somehow, it seems ridiculous to let people kill chickens in such a horrible way, yet the same people are proud of the way they slaughter them "humanely" at other times.
When I was living on Maui, I lived above a family of Filipinos who would get dogs and beat them to death. (I'm not kidding!) Then they would take a blow torch, burn off the dog's fur and cook it on a spit. No offense to any Filipinos out there, but I heard this was common practice back in the islands.
