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Gracious Word: Tashlikh

5/13/2014

 
Tashlik
Word every Gracious Individual should know: Tashlikh

Definition: Tashlikh (pronounced: tahsh-leekh); Hebrew; noun
1. Casting off.

Why I love this word:
A Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah. The custom is to go to a large, natural flowing water (such as a river, lake or sea, etc), and 'throw' into it all previous year's sins. This is an interpretation of the bible ceremony: "You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." 

Photograph by Jordan Voth


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