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Order Number	00067971
Title	Rosh Hashanah celebrations, Echo Park
Photographer	Leonard, Gary.
Collection ID	Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection
Location/Accession	GPC_b1_f2_i20; A-009-250 4x5
Date	1998
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Description	A group of people have gathered in Echo Park to celebrate Rosh Hashanah. During the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah the practice of tashlikh occurs, in which prayers are recited near natural flowing water, and one's sins are symbolically cast into the water. Rosh Hashanah is literally translated as "head of the year", and idiomatically refers to the Jewish New Year. This holiday is the first of the "Yamim Noraim", the most solemn days of the Jewish year; the Yamim Noraim are preceded by the month of Elul, during which Jews are supposed to begin a self-examination and repentance, a process that culminates in the ten days of the Yamim Noraim known as "Asseret Yemei Teshuva" (The Ten Days of Repentance) beginning with Rosh Hashanah and ending with the holiday of Yom Kippur. Note the kippahs, or cloth skull caps, worn by all of the males in the group. Photograph dated October 2, 1998.
Subject	Judaism--Prayers and devotions. Prayer--California--Los Angeles. Parks--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles). Lakes--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles). Urban lakes--California--Echo Park (Los Angeles). Rosh ha-Shanah. Tashlikh. Echo Park (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Credits	Part of the Los Angeles Neighborhoods Project. Made accessible through a grant from the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation.
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Internal Notes	There are two smaller additional prints.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Neighborhoods Photo Collection