Tashlich Videos

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah we go to a body of water to recite the tashlich prayer, where we beseech G-d for mercy, atonement and a good new year.

Joey and his pals find themselves stranded underwater just as Rosh Hashanah is about to begin!

Recited on the first afternoon of Rosh Hashanah near a body of water, preferably containing live fish; it expresses prayerful hope that G-d cast our sins into the murky depths of the sea and is rich in symbolic and mystical meaning.

The locked gates to Brooklyn’s Botanical Gardens didn’t stop the Rebbe from doing Tashlich on Rosh Hashana that year.

Rabbi Zalman Posner was a young yeshivah student when the Rebbe arrived in the United States in 1941. He describes an event early in the Rebbe’s presence on these shores, which was truly characteristic of the Rebbe.

Rabbis Yosef Goldstein and Mendel Baumgarten recall a memorable Tashlich on Rosh Hashanah, 1956.