Sunday, September 12, 2010

sunday september 12, 2010

oh what a religion.....

i know it is a faith based religion, i know that we are not supposed to question, i know i know i know....but, i would like to discuss the concept of tashlich. For any readers who do now know what this is, tashlich is when we go to a body of water on the first day of the jewish new year celebration and we "throw away" our sins into the water....fresh start for a new year. This has always been a social situation, going back to even when my mom was young and she would tell me that you would find all of your dates for the year at tashlich (meeting men, throwing away your sins...its all the same...)Now, of course, it becomes a situation where i see people that i dont like or dont want to talk to and i accumulate even more sins that i have to dispose of..i just cant win....

anyway, in years past, we would come with our stale challah bread and use those pieces as our sins....throwing the bread into the water and watching the ducks come and eat our transgressions. well, apparently, someone from the wildlife foundation was not happy about its animals eating the sins of jews around the world and the rabbis came out with an edict that you can no longer throw bread, because it makes the animals work and that is prohibited on the holiday. OH MY FREAKIN LORD.....isnt it enough that i would have to lug around 500 pounds of bread to cover all of my sins....and now, what am i supposed to throw? rocks? will that kill the ducks? why can't anyone work with me on this....if i am going to hell anyway, can't i be nice and feed some animals along the way?

just add it to the list of questions i will never have an answer to....but happy and healthy new year to all...

happy sunday

No comments:

Post a Comment