Tashlich, a symbolic casting-off of the previous year's sins during Rosh Hashana, is traditionally performed by reciting a prayer near a body of water. How do Jerusalemites perform the ritual in a city with no natural water sources? The wells located around the city have been empty since 1954, but once a year, on Rosh Hashanah, they are opened and filled in Jerusalem's ancient neighborhoods for residents to come and symbolically cast away their sins. Others have sufficed with merely turning on a faucet and reciting the prayer near the sink. Beit Shmuel invites you to participate in a fascinating Rosh Hashanah Tashlich tour (in Hebrew) in Nachlaot and Zichronot, neighborhoods in which the ancient Tashlich tradition is performed by observant Jews beside all sorts of improvised water sources.
Monday, September 17, 2012, the first day of Rosh Hashanah at 16:30
Modest dress is required. Tour guide: Esther Sa'ad. Price: 89 NIS. For tickets call 02-620-3461
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