Tashlich in Jerusalem

Posted: Sun, Aug 30 2009, 4:01 pm Post subject: Tashlich in Jerusalem

I was just discussing this with my daughter.

How will we do tashlich this year? What do you all do when you're far from water? I've always lived a mile or less from a body of water so never had an issue before.

Where do you go for tashlich?

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Mikva!

You stand outside the building. Or, if there's a keilim mikva, you can open it up and actually see some water.
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Posted: Sun, Aug 30 2009, 4:31 pm Post subject: re: Tashlich in Jerusalem

I have not done tashlich on rosh hashana since I have been living in israel.

I have gone to the beach a few times after RH and done it then. if you have no water to go to then you have no water to go to.

before I got married, I went to friends for RH and the neighbors had a lovely pond that even had lovely big goldfish inside just for tashlich Smile

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Milchig sink.

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the belzers say it in the courtyard of the belzer shul - they have a well there. It is amazing and beautiful to watch.

Posted: Mon, Aug 31 2009, 12:06 am Post subject: re: Tashlich in Jerusalem

In Bayit Vegan, where I grew up and where I now go for Rosh Hashana, there is a water thingie (forgot what you call it) at the end of REchov Hapisgah. To tell you the truth I never get out anyomore on the first day of RH. I usually wind up doing it at the last minute, on Hoshana Raba in front of the sink! (My great grandmother used to do it that way)
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Shiloach

Posted: Mon, Aug 31 2009, 1:11 am Post subject:

Dh doesn't hold doing it by the sink, mikvah, etc. Either we go to Netanya to the beach (because we were going to see the IL anyway), or he goes to the springs by the old city or another water source sometime before YK.
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Posted: Mon, Aug 31 2009, 1:50 am Post subject:

Keilim mikvah usually. And every year I pray very hard that they'll clean out all those crumbs before I go to tovel my new Pesach dishes!
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We don't do it anymore since we live here.

It's not minhag eretz Yisroel. It came from Europe where there was always a river running through the town.

The Gra was against it (maasah Rav 202).

http://machonshilo.org/en/eng/list-ask-the-rav/55-shabbath-yom-tov/88-tashlich

Posted: Mon, Aug 31 2009, 11:26 am Post subject: re: Tashlich in Jerusalem

before modern plumbing, where did cities like jerusalem get their water from? there must be some water sources in such a big city.