This Friday is our first of the new year and the last we celebrate together before Yom Kippur which means. . . it is time for our annual Tashlich service together.
As of now the weather reports for Friday look cool, but dry. Assuming that is still the case on Friday, we will walk to Klode Park. We’ll then sing and pray, have a short reflection activity by grade, and each student will have a chance to symbolically toss their mistakes from the past year (this year small stones deemed healthier for the wildlife than bread crumbs) into Lake Michigan for a fresh start in the new year. After our Tashlich service we’ll welcome Shabbat together at the playground and have a little down time before walking back to school.
Please check the weather reports and make sure your child is dressed appropriately to spend the morning outdoors, and closed toed walking shoes are required.
If it is raining we will not walk to Klode. Instead we will have regularly scheduled Shabbat sing from 8:05-8:35 a.m., during which students will have some time for reflection and we’ll use dissolvable paper to symbolically “wash away” our mistakes from the past year without leaving the Beit Midrash.
If you’d like to know more about the Tashlich tradition, you can read about the history of the practice here. If you have any questions about our ceremony, please contact Rabbi Schaller, tschaller@mjds.org.