[Avodah] What’s the Truth About Tashlich?

[Prof. Levine]

 From http://tinyurl.com/meqgdja

by Rabbi Dr. Zivotofsky, who is on the faculty of the Brain Science 
Program at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.

It is interesting to note that there were those who did not practice 
tashlich at all. The Gra reportedly did not perform tashlich, nor did 
his star pupil Rabbi Chaim of Volozhin.17 The Chayei Adam fails to 
record the custom. From the Aruch Hashulchan (OC 583:4) it seems that 
tashlich was far from a universal custom; furthermore, the Aruch 
Hashulchan has an ancillary problem with the custom. He advises women 
not go to tashlich so as not to create a mixed scene. If they do go, 
he suggests the men should stay home.18 Evidently, the custom was not 
very important to him.19

In the final analysis, God doesn't desire only the symbolic act of 
tashlich or just the davening and fasting on Yom Kippur. He wants 
true repentance, as found in the words of Yonah (3:10) used by the 
town elder on public fast days (Ta'anit 2:1): "And God saw their 
deeds that they had repented from their evil ways, and the Lord 
relented of the evil that He had spoken to do to them, and He did not do it."

See the above URL for more. YL

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