1st Annual BSKI “Tachlich at the Confluence”
Sunday, October 9, 2005- Tishre 6, 5766

Tachlich is a service to symbolically cast your sins away into water.   We will cast our bread, symbolic of our sins, into the confluence of the Missouri River with the Mississippi River .  

We hope you can join us in this very spiritual family adventure and be part of our Tachlich Service by the rivers.  It can be a very meaningful experience for all ages and can truly make the High Holy Days a very memorable and spiritual experience!

Where Two Rivers Become One:   In 1721, French explorer Father Pierre Francois de Charlevoix wrote of the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, “I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much the same breadth, each about half a league; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its white waters to the opposite shore without mixing them, after wards, it gives its color to the Mississippi which it never loses again but carries quite down to the sea....”

Limited reservations are available for bus transportation with a light box lunch (dairy) (including bread for casting) for $5 per person.   Reservations must be made by October 4 to Sheila at BSKI, 314-725-6230.

Meet at BSKI at 12:15 PM, enjoy lunch and then board the bus at 1 PM.   Expected arrival at the Edward "Ted" and Pat Jones-Confluence Point State Park , 1000 Riverlands Way, West Alton , MO 63386 , (636) 899-1135, will be at 2 PM, with bus return to BSKI by 4PM.    

Rabbi Miller at the Confluence

More information and maps are available on-line at http://www.mostateparks.com/confluence/map.htm

Additional driving directions will be available for those without Internet access.  
The last four miles of the road to the site are dirt roads
subject to dusty conditions, sign up for the bus and avoid the dust.

This area is very photogenic and has many birds, bring cameras and binoculars.

Note that restroom facilities do not have running water, but wet- wipes and towels will be provided.

Bottled drinking water will be provided.