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From
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/meqgdja" eudora="autourl">
http://tinyurl.com/meqgdja</a><br><br>
by <font size=3><i>Rabbi Dr. Zivotofsky, who is on the faculty of the
Brain Science Program at Bar-Ilan University in Israel.</i> <br><br>
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<br><br>
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.”<br><br>
See the above URL for more. YL<br>
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