Tashlikh

As Tashlich (Hebrew " [ you shall ] submit " ) or make Tashlich is referred to a Jewish custom, following the Mincha prayer of the first New Year's Day (Rosh Hashanah ).

Expiration

The faithful go as possible just before sunset on a body of water ( stream, river, lake, sea, wells or source), shake their clothes off and throw all the crumbs that are in their pockets, into the water, making them symbolically shaken off the sins sink. Here, three times a prayer after Micah is 7.19 spoken: "You will ... throw all their sins into the depths of the sea ( we- Tashlich ) ". The symbolic act is to encourage repentance before God and to purify.

The Taschlichgebet is the second New Year's spoken on the banks of a river, the sea or beach, for example, in Jerusalem, at least in the vicinity of a source or a water-containing well before sunset on the first or, if the first falls on a Shabbat. The Taschlichgebet is a plea for forgiveness and forgetting of sins. It also contains a request for a year of life, of peace and fulfillment of desires. The bags are shaken in general and brushed out the hems of dresses or scattered breadcrumbs into the water. This is intended to symbolically shake off all the sins of the past year that have remained may depend, and sink in the water; also is characterized asked for forgiveness.

Origin

The origin of the custom is not released. It can not be found today, whether it is based on the above Bible verse, or whether it has been used as an afterthought. In the Middle Ages, the ritual of some major Jewish scholars was rejected because it is a suspected pagan origins. Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz, a Kabbalist of the 16th century, was of the opinion that it was absurd to think that one could get rid of by emptying the pockets into a water body of his sins, but suggested before, the faithful should go to a fish-rich waters to be reminded that man the same fish and he must be constantly on guard not to be caught.

The misunderstanding of the custom may have contributed to the high medieval anti-Jewish conspiracy theory of poisoning wells by Jews during the spread of the plague.