Rosh Hashanah

The Vltava River

Casting away our sins.

This weekend I am going to Berlin! From Friday morning to Monday afternoon. There are about 10,000 things I want to do in Berlin so I am very excited. Get excited for a ton of pictures and stories, I have a good feeling about this city.

I just got back from services and a long Rosh Hashanah dinner in a synagogue in the old Jewish Quarter. It was a very nice service and the dinner following was particularly for college students in Prague so I met some interesting people. It was very nice to experience services in another language. They were held in Hebrew, Czech, and English... which explains why I was there for literally 5 hours. But it was a nice event. During the services, we did the ceremony of casting your sins (symbolized by bread) into a body of water. We walked out of the temple and to the Vltava River, it was just before sundown, and we cast our breadcrumbs into the river and watched them, our sins of the last year, wash away. It was very pretty. There was a toddler, a nephew of the Rabbi, who kept eating the bread. Someone tried to stop him and the Rabbi's wife said "Let him eat. He doesn't have any sins yet." It was a very simple and pleasant evening. L'shana tova!

The hungry child without sins.