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Showing posts with label Tashlikh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tashlikh. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Bread is NOT for the birds (especially ducks) Tuesday's Truths Week 99



I came across this video when poking around the Internet and am letting it suffice as my truth for this ninety-ninth episode of my Tuesday's Truth series as it is a perfect "illustration" on the importance of not feeding ducks bread.

If you are interested on further info re the negative impact feeding birds bread (even if this food is from a Tashlikh ritual) can have, please refer to my 9/29/2017 blog post.

Friday, September 29, 2017

Today's Friday (September 29, 2017) Facts: Tashlikh ends. Yom Kippur begins at sundown.


Earlier today, I published a post re some interesting facts that I had learned about a Muscovy duck (who turns out is named Jewel) whom I initially met on Wednesday, September the twentieth, when I spent time on a pier which is on The Hudson River.

Last evening when I went down to that same pier to visit the birds, I saw Jewel on an adjacent pier in the company of Mallard ducks and pigeons, as evidenced in the image atop this entry. While I was there, someone pointed out to me that lots of bread varieties had been dumped in the river as evidenced in the next picture.


This included whole club rolls (indicated by light grey arrow), whole semolina loaves (indicated with white arrows), whole kaiser rolls (indicated with black arrows), whole bialys (indicated by yellow circles), as well as a whole bagel (indicated by an orange circle), as seen below.


The person who pointed this out to me was deeply disturbed, for she knows how dangerous it is for wild birds to eat most breads.