Some throw bread, others paper inscribed with hopes. Some send silent prayers into the water. Tashlich is one of Judaism’s most accessible and loved rituals.
As rain came down Sunday evening and the typical D.C. sound of passing helicopters whoop-whooped overhead, dozens of Jewish young adults stood at the Tidal Basin with fistfuls of Cheerios, ready to spiritually tackle regrets the way Jews have done for centuries.The Cheerios are a modern twist, but since the Middle Ages Jews have been flinging breadcrumbs, scraps of paper or prayers into water on Rosh Hashanah, or the Jewish new year.
“Step forward if you want to let some [expletive] go!” Rabbi Nora Feinstein of Sixth & I said as a follow-up. Among the prayers and poems common at Tashlich are those asking for mercy, and also those urging Jews to truly let go of the things holding them back; otherwise, these things will return, like untreated waste that can wash ashore in a body of moving water.The Washington Post interviewed Jews about their intentions for Tashlich 2023 , and rabbis about the history and meanings and various expressions of the ritual.
This year she is thinking, personally, about how she can be both an assertive activist in her efforts to improve the world, and also listen well to others’ strategies, to “let go of this feeling that I need to know the right answer.”To Rabbi Shira Stutman, host of the Jewish podcast Chutzpod and former longtime rabbi at Sixth & I, Tashlich is a great physical, embodied, concrete practice.
People in the D.C. area, she said, are “workaholics,” and she wants to focus on defining for herself what the “best version of myself is, the truest version, and casting off things that don’t feel right.”Josh Maxey, 30, is executive director at Bet Mispachah, and his 2023 Tashlich — and high holiday focus in general — includes letting go of trying to reach perfection in his job.
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