The mystical material girl is back in Israel. This time, the travel purpose is twofold: a high holiday Kabbalah tour around the country and house-hunting. Madonna (or Madge or Esther) is interested in purchasing real-estate in Rosh Pina, the valley through which the messiah will purportedly enter Safed. Though in the past she’s insisted her affiliation with the land is non-religious, it appears that this year she’ll participate in Taschlich, the Rosh Hashanah ritual of casting away sins. Boaters beware…
JPost reports:
Pop star Madonna knows where she’ll be performing tashlich this year. Do you? The singer, who will spend her second Rosh Hashana in Israel this month, will participate in the traditional High Holy Days ceremony on the shores of the Mediterranean, where she’ll join other participants on her Kabbalah Center trip in throwing bread crumbs into the water. The ceremony, a symbolic casting off of sins accumulated over the past year, is just part of the season-long process of requesting forgiveness.
Here’s to hoping pocket crumbs won’t desiccate the deep blue sea!
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