Kaporos practices as seen on the streets of the world are sometimes featured in street photography because the scenes are replete with opportunities to create superficially picturesque images. The ritual is practiced by a small segment of the Orthodox/Hasidic Jewish community and is thought of as an atonement ritual done just before the eve of Yom Kippur. On a personal level as a street/documentary image maker, I was eager to witness this ritual and create some of my own images of this ancient practice. Although I've been photographing New York City with occasional forays into Williamsburg to record scenes of life in the vibrant Hasidic neighborhood, I never knew exactly when this ritual took place. It wasn't until October of 2019 that I was finally able to witness the practice on the streets of Williamsburg with my camera. What I saw in a few hours affected me deeply, and forced me to recognize the power and meaning of every life, every creature, in every place. I was confronted with the responsibility of photographing life with absolute candor no matter the difficulty involved or how distasteful the subject matter. I fully realized that many times images and scenes of daily life in fact represent highly selective image making and therefore do not tell the whole story, instead presenting a simpler, partial view that serves to obscure a story or situation that desperately needs to be seen in its entirety. Often we are confronted with volumes of things and people and animals--herds and flocks and protests and swarms. It becomes so easy to lose sight of individual creatures, becoming numb to the deeply meaningful inner lives of each individual within the masses we are confronted by each day. This series of images is not easy to look at but is an accurate representation of what I witnessed. This short series tells the story of a brief interlude of tremendous pain, and the power of a highly motivated and solitary few to save a handful of lives, and the power and beauty of the act is just as meaningful to the small number of those involved as it would be if the measure of intervention was greater.