Tashlich ritual on display near Tel Aviv

Sep 22, 2015

Tashlich ritual on display near Tel Aviv

Matt Bracken 0 Comment The Baltimore Sun, World Israel, Tel Aviv

Tashlich is a ritual during which believers cast their sins into the water and the fish, and it is performed before the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish calendar, which this year falls on September 22.

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays along the Mediterranean Sea in the city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays along the Mediterranean Sea in Israeli the city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz listen to their rabbi on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz pray on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews of the Hassidic sect Vizhnitz pray on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony in Herzeliya, Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather by the Yarkon springs as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays by the Yarkon springs as he participates in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather by the Yarkon springs as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews run to get a spot by the Yarkon springs just before the beginning of the Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather by the Yarkon springs as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. Tashlich, which means “to cast away” in Hebrew, is a practice in which Jews go to a large flowing body of water and symbolically “throw away” their sins by throwing a piece of bread, or similar food, into the water before the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which starts on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather by the Yarkon springs as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather by the Yarkon springs as they participate in a Tashlich ceremony near Rosh Haain, central Israel, Monday, Sept. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths pray along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

: An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays along the Mediterranean Sea in the Israeli city of Herzliya, near Tel Aviv, during the ritual of Tashlich on September 21, 2015. (JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

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