Vintage Photo Friday - Rosh Hashonah

It is customary during Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year, to start fresh and cast your sins into the water.  This is called the tradition of Tashlikh.  Here is a group of women on the Williamsburg Bridge in New York, 1910, performing this rite.

New York, 1910.  NYC Vintage Images

Another group of people, reading the traditional prayer while throwing bread into the water.  1909, New York.

Tashlikh.  1909.  New York.  NYC Vintage Images

This weekend, Larry and I will travel to the closet body of water to our house, The Ballona Creek flood channel, and cast our sins off!

Ballona Creek after a 2010 Rainstorm

Ballona Creek During our Recent Drought, 2014

Hope you have a reflective weekend, my friends.