Higher Holidays: Tashlich

For nearly 15 years, Reboot has been reimagining Tashlich as “Taschlique” with hundreds of people gathering on the beach in San Francisco to throw crumbs into the water and symbolically write the things they want to leave in the past year into the wet sand and watch the waves erase them. We play the shofar together with Irish bagpipers and horn players from the Jazz Mafia and the Ministers of Sound of the Saint John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church and walk to the water’s edge immersed in sound. We finish the evening with a bonfire and s’mores.

However you cast your “sins” away, this is an opportunity to create a ritual and reflect on the year you envision ahead.

Whatever form Tashlich takes for you, consider the following:

  • - We don’t have the ability to change the past, but we do have the ability to make it mean something different. But that takes work. How do you want to change the meaning of your experience? What will you do to make that happen?

  • - Rosh Hashanah holds on to the idea that no matter what has happened, change is still possible. Tashlich allows us to choose to leave behind what needs to be left so we can change. What will you leave behind? 

After you have paused for this moment, enjoy your hopes for a sweet new year with the traditional apples and honey, or of course roasting s’mores. 

This year Reboot is partnering with Hillel International to create a series of audacious ritual experiences. Learn more at: www.HigherHolidays.org

Find out more about how Reboot reimagines tradition and ritual at: rebooters.net


Booklet Section: Looking Back / Tashlich 
Source: higherholidays.org