tashlik

noun
tash·​lik
variants: or tashlich \ ˈtäshliḵ \
plural -s

Definition of tashlik

: a symbolic propitiatory rite that is celebrated by Orthodox Jews traditionally on the afternoon of Rosh Hashanah and that consists in assembling along the banks of a running stream, reciting Micah 7:18–20 and penitential prayers, and shaking one's garments as if casting one's sins into the water to be washed or swept away

History and Etymology for tashlik

Hebrew tashlīkh thou will cast (as in Micah 7:19), 2d singular imperfect or hishlīkh to cast

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