If you are doing a Rosh Hashanah seder of simanim (signs, augurs, portents) using food puns, here are some additions related to today (with apologies for any Hebrew mistakes I’ve made). . . .
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☞ Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Topical Additions to the Seder Akhilat haSimanim from Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org) for 2020
Contributor(s): David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
Shared on י״ד בתשרי ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-02) — under the following terms: Categories:  Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Tags:  eco-conscious, symbolic foods, punning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., ecoḥasid
Contributor(s): Ḥayyim Obadyah
Shared on כ״ו באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim, Epidemics & Pandemics
Tags: seudot, festive meals, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, COVID-19 coronavirus 
A liturgy of symbolic foods exclusively for the eve of the Hebrew new year 5781. A traditional egalitarian Hebrew text being a newly revised liturgy with contemporary text and additional prayers suitable to our perilous and worrisome state at the beginning of this second year of the pandemic and including a modern English translation together with learned annotations and guidance for observance in the home. . . . 
Contributor(s): Nili Simhai and Simcha Daniel Burstyn (translation)
Shared on כ״ח באלול ה׳תשע״א (2011-09-27) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Tags: Nusaḥ Farsi, seudot, festive meals, symbolic foods, punning, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, teḥinot over foods, teḥinot during meals 
Thank you to Nili Simhai and Yosh Schulman for sharing the Farsi (Persian) Nusaḥ of this punful minhag — the order of reciting kavvanot (intentions) for the New Year. Profound thanks are also due to Rabbi Simcha Daniel Burstyn of Kibbutz Lotan for his translation. Please help the Open Siddur Project by helping to translate and transcribe all of the Hebrew and Farsi in this seder. Sol’e nu Mobarak! سال نو مبارک — L’shanah Tova! . . . 
Contributor(s): Rabbi R. Karpov, Ph.D.
Shared on ט״ז באלול ה׳תשע״ב (2012-09-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Tags: four worlds, seudot, festive meals, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, ecoḥasid, סימנים simanim, neo-lurianic 
Ḥazal, — some of our Jewish Sages, May Their Memory Be For A Blessing — suggest that ‘simanah milsah‘ — a symbol has significance. Some of the teachers of Jewish tradition encourage us on Rosh HaShanah to partake of a variety of foods suggestive of prosperity and happiness. This usage is alluded to in the directive of the prophet Nechemiah to the assembly: ‘Go your way, eat the fat and drink the sweet …” (Nechemiah 8:10). Our kavvanoth — sacred intentions — are that these Symbolic Foods Of Life are to help us effect a good coming year. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״א באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-10) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Tags: seudot, festive meals, symbolic foods, punning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, teḥinot over foods, teḥinot during meals 
Many communities have a custom of reciting “simanim” on the night of Rosh haShanah — invocations on a series of foods punning over their Hebrew or Aramaic names. This is an assortment of common simanim, along with English loose translations that preserve the punning aspects of the foods. . . . 
Contributor(s): Stephen Belsky
Shared on א׳ בתשרי ה׳תשע״ב (2011-09-28) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim
Tags: seudot, festive meals, symbolic foods, punning, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim 
As חז”ל [Ḥazal] taught us, on ראש השנה [Rosh Hashanah] we elevate puns from the lowest form of humor to the highest religious experience. The foods suggested by our Sages had names in Aramaic or Hebrew that symbolized hopes for the new year — here is a list of foods with English names for those of us for whom English is our vernacular. . . . |
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