How Much Money for Kaparot
Question
What is the customary amount of money that is used to perform Kaparot?
Answer
Shalom!
There is no fixed custom for this. According to the law, any amount is sufficient. Some have the custom to give an amount equivalent to the value of a chicken, 40 - 50 NIS per person.
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Smicha "Yoreh-Yoreh" (2012), Rav Amram Fried's Beit Horaah
Orach Chaim, Yoreh Deah
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Source
Shulchan Aruch, section Orach Chayim, chapter 605
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