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Front Text - אין זכות פון צדקה, וואס מיר געבען צו יעדער צייט, פון קליין ביז גרויס - פערשרייב אונז, גאט, אין בוך פון לעבען, און מעק דאס קיינמאל שוין נישט אויס... "קערות" אין ערב יום כפור;Text on the back -ПОЧТОВАЯ КАРТОЧКАC.W. Postcarte Printed in Germany Verlag "Central" נאכקאפירונג אונד נאכדרוק פערבאטען פערלאג געזעלש צענטראל ווארשא;Production period - ??/??/1920 - ??/??/1930;Category - Jewish customs;Description - An interior scene presenting the Gabai of a synagogue and his assistant sitting at a table on which are five bowls. In each bowl a note representing a charity (Talmud Torah, Linat Hazadik, Hachnasat Kala, Hazan, Eretz Israel) and a small pile of coins. The coins are the money used as substitute for chickens in the religious ritual of Kaparot. In this ritual the sins are transfered symbolically to the chicken or coins, which are eaten or brought to the synagogue as charity on Yom Kippur's eve. On both sides of the table are Fathers and sons (?) putting the Kaparot money in the bowls. [M. J.];Research details Stamp Related Bibliography - A similar postcard is mentioned in Sabar, Shalom, “Between Poland and Germany Jewish Religious Practices in Illustrated Postcards ofPolin Studies in Polish Jewry 16 (2003), pp. 146-147.