Second Annual
BSKI “Tashlis at the Confluence”
Sunday, October 1, 2006- Tishre 9, 5767
Tachlis 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 Tachlis Service by the rivers. It can be a very meaningful experience for all ages and can truly make the High Holy Days a very meaningful 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....”
Save the date, additional information will be coming regarding transportation and arrangements.
We will meet at BSKI at 9:15 AM, enjoy a portable breakfast and then leave at 9:30 AM. 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 10:30 AM, with return to BSKI by 12:30 PM.
Photo by Donald Pearline
These BSKI Members enjoyed the 1st Annual Tachlis at the Confluence,
join them in experiencing this Mitzvah.
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.