The Lilith Blog

September 28, 2016 by Bernadette Murphy

A Divorcing Catholic Discovers Tashlikh

Last fall, I spent Rosh Hashanah weekend with a group of women in a rented house in Ventura, California, a beach town perched between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. The plan was to have a simple Rosh Hashanah dinner together on Sunday night and then half our group would commute back to L.A. to attend services in the city and the other half—including me—would take a high-speed catamaran to Santa Cruz Island for a day of hiking and open-water kayaking, a way of communing with God through nature and starting the Jewish New Year.  

This was one of the first outings I’d made since telling my husband of 25 years that I no longer wanted to be married.