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Tashlikh

American  
[tahsh-leekh, tahsh-likh] / tɑʃˈlix, ˈtɑʃ lɪx /
Or Tashlik,

noun

Hebrew.
  1. a Jewish rite, performed on the afternoon usually of the first day of Rosh Hashanah, in which the participants symbolically cast off their sins by gathering along the banks of a river, stream, or the like and reciting prayers of repentance.


Etymology

Origin of Tashlikh

tashlīkh literally, you will cast


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