Tashlik Prayer (Casting Away Your Sins)

Tashlik is said from Rosh Hashanna to Yom Kippur. Most families do this right after the services on Rosh Hashanna, but if you didn’t get a chance to do this at any point, you surely have the ability to complete it before Yom Kippur starts.

The water must be a body of water that moves, has fish in it. If you do not have that near you, you can use a creek etc.  Today, I took my lunch hour and went to the creek next to our office.

All you need is a slice of bread and a prayer to say. See below for the prayer and the hyperlinks to go with this. I happened to have found this prayer online also:

Who is like You,

God,

who removes iniquity and overlooks transgressions of the remainder of His inheritance.

He doesn’t remain angry forever because He desires kindness.

He will return and He will be merciful to us,

And He will conquer our iniquities

and

He will cast them into the depths of the seas.

Give truth to Jacob,

kindness to Abraham like that you swore to our ancestors from long ago.

From the straits I called upon G-d,

God answered me with expansiveness. 

God is with me,

I will not be afraid,

what can man doe to me?

God is with me to help me,

and

I will see my foes

(annihilated).

It is better to take refuge in God then trust in man.

It is better to take refuge in God, then to rely on nobles.

 

Many people also read Psalms 33 and Psalms 130. (Links below)

PSALMS:

http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16254

http://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16351
Copied from:

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/4838/jewish/Cast-Away-Sins.htm

http://www.chabad.org/holidays/JewishNewYear/template_cdo/aid/427289/jewish/Tashlich-Prayer-English.htm