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Tashlikh
or Tash·lik, Tash·lich
[ Sephardic Hebrew tahsh-leekh; Ashkenazic Hebrew tahsh-likh ]
noun
, Hebrew.
- a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Tashlikh1
tashlīkh literally, you will cast
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Example Sentences
But he also appeared later that day with Lynchburg’s mayor for the Rosh Hashana ritual of tashlikh, the symbolic casting of sins into a stream.
From New York Times
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