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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tagged: symbolic foods 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): 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): Arthur Waskow and the Shalom Center
Shared on י׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ד (2014-04-09) — under the following terms: Categories: Leil Pesaḥ, Symbolic Foods
Tags: symbolic foods, ḥaroset, Jewish Renewal, סגולות segulot, haggadah supplements 
There it sits on the Seder plate: ḥaroset, a delicious paste of chopped nuts, chopped fruits, spices, and wine. So the question would seem obvious: “Why is there ḥaroset on the Seder plate?” That’s the most secret Question at the Seder – so secret nobody even asks it. And it’s got the most secret answer: none. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on כ״א בניסן ה׳תשע״ח (2018-04-05) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Yom haShoah (27 Nissan), Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27)
Tags: North America, symbolic foods, Mourning this Broken World, השואה the Shoah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., the Holocaust, כז ניסן, 27 Nissan, speaking truth to power 
The most traumatic event in recent Jewish history is the Holocaust. At this time, the survivors of the camps are aging, and in the lifespan of people alive today it is likely that the last survivor will die. We say we must never forget what happened during the Holocaust, but if we think of it as a tragedy that happened to our ancestors we will forget. But it has been 3000 years since the Exodus from Egypt, and the Haggadah keeps its history vivid and alive. We are taught that in each and every generation we are to think of ourselves as having been slaves in Egypt. May it be that just as we never forgot the wonders of the Exodus, so too we never forget the horrors of the Holocaust, and continue to strive that such horrors may never happen again until all live in freedom and peace. . . . 
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. . . . 
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Shared on ט׳ בניסן ה׳תשע״ט (2019-04-14) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Leil Pesaḥ, Symbolic Foods
Tags: symbolic foods, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, haggadah supplements, cup of miriam, leeks, beets, miriam's fish, oranges, turnip peels, Maxwell House coffee 
Additional symbolic foods arranged on a second seder plate. . . . |
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