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When “the sea,” or any water, is considered metaphorically to epitomize the power to nullify beyond retrieval, as well as purify, we can understand the Tashlich ceremony to be a sort of meditative aid in our process of genuine repentance. We wish to truly leave behind all of our past transgressions and personal faults, emerging cleansed in a state of renewal – and Tashlich is a dramatic way of emphasizing such aspirations.
In addition, every action which we perform in this physical world has a spiritual counterpart in the Higher Worlds. By performing certain actions with the proper concentration, we actually do affect the higher, spiritual reality; this is one of the basic reasons in Jewish mystical tradition for the performance of all mitzvahs. This Rosh Hashanah, may we merit to approach the life-giving source of all divine beneficence, our spiritual “stains” washed away.
[Ed. note: Also read "What is Tashlich?"]
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