Tag #121012 - Interview #102368 (Solomon Meir)

During the first day of the New Year, on Rosh Hashanah, you go to a place with water in order to cast away your sins – you shake your pockets clean [Taslich]. The entire synagogue would go, everyone who attended, of course. In Botosani, people went to a pond. There are 2-3 ponds in the neighborhood – which is to say, they aren’t in the neighborhood, you actually have quite a bit of walking to do in order to reach them.