Louise Fishman, Tashlich, Oil on linen, 1984
Artist/Maker:
Louise Fishman
Bio:
American, 1939-2021
Title:
Tashlich
Date:
1984
Medium:
Oil on linen
Dimensions:
25 1/8 × 17 1/8 in. (63.8 × 43.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist in memory of Kristie A. Jayne
Accession Number:
1990-5

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For centuries, traditional Jews have gone the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah to the nearest body of free-flowing water to recite several Psalms and a line from the prophet Micah: "And you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." And they have shaken out their pockets of lint and bread crumbs, symbolically shaking loose their sins of the past year that they could be swept downstream to the sea.

-Louise Fishman, 1990

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