Translates as “casting off”. Refers to the custom of going to a body of water on the first afternoon of Rosh Hashana. A special Tashlich prayer is recited, to facilitate the casting off of ones sins.
"Casting off," the symbolic casting away of sins on the first day of the new year, done by the edge of a body of moving water. People turn their pockets inside out, tossing the contents (often breadcrumbs expressly for that purpose) into the water to symbolize the cleansing from sin after repentance.
Casting bread upon the water. On Rosh Hashana, Jews traditionally walk to a natural body of water into which they throw breadcrumbs, symbolic of their sins.
literally means "to cast away". This ritual perfomed near a body of water offers an actualization of our hidden emotional feelings. We literally take crumbs from our pockets, the leftover bread of our year's accumulation, and cast them in the water for the fish to carry them far, far away from us. We let go and let live anew! During the Capital Kehillah's Tashlich the bread crumbs will be provided or you can bring your own and we will all share. Try to wear something with pockets. This ritual includes a prayer and a psalm and a song. The meditative piece is yours to envelop on your own.
Tashlich means casting off. In the Rosh HaShana tashlich ceremony, people symbolically cast their sins into a body of water.
Rosh HaShanah practice of throwing bread, etc. into water, symbolically casting away sins
