16 Sep Tashlich at BCHA
This week, our youngest students participated in one of Rosh Hashanah’s earliest and most profound traditions: Tashlich.
At the Bartlet Arboretum, Kindergarten and First Grade students gathered with their teachers, Rabbi Jordan Soffer (Head of School), and Rabbi Josh Rosenfeld (Rav Beit Sefer) to symbolically cast away anything left over from the past year.
Guided by their teachers and the Rabbis, students learned what it means to reflect, let go of the past, and start fresh in the new year. Throughout the day, BCHA’s youngest learners proved that reflection isn’t just a grown-up task. They thought back on moments over the last year when they strayed from doing good, wrote them on dissolvable paper, and cast them into the brook below.
This tradition gives BCHA’s students a hands-on, meaningful way to practice accountability and growth, two building blocks of the thoughtful and compassionate leaders they will soon become.
As the paper and bread dissolved into the water, so did the weight of the year before, leaving our students ready to greet the new year.