[Sca-cooks] re: A Guide to Tashlich

[Marian Rosenberg]

>                   From:
>                         Seton1355 at aol.com

>                   Date:
>                         Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:55:47 EDT

>                 Subject:
>                         [Sca-cooks] A GUIDE TO TASHLICH

>
> A GUIDE TO TASHLICH
> On Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), there is a ceremony called Tashlich.
> Jews traditionally go to the ocean (or a stream or river), pray, and then
> throw bread crumbs onto the water, so that the fish can symbolically eat
> their sins. Some people have been known to ask what kind of bread crumbs
> should they throw
> For ordinary sins........................................White Bread
> For exotic sins.........................................French Bread
> For particularly dark...................................Pumpernickel
> For complex sins.........................................Multi-Grain
> For twisted sins............................................Pretzels
> For tasteless sins........................................Rice Cakes

Awh ... <pout>

Our hostess spent a short forever trying to find what she had done with
this so we could all be silly about it before going to do Tashlich.

Though you've got a lot more sins on this list than the ones I've
previously seen.  Certainly, a lot more than the "standard" list of
sins.  I don't recall the sin of arson or the sin of singing off key
being in the prayer book.

We threw crackers and pumpernickel bread into the Chesapeake Bay.
Didn't get any sea gulls eating our sins, but did see a crab.

-M