📖 סדר אכילת הסמנים | Seder Akhilat haSimanim for Rosh Hashanah 5881, by Ḥayyim Obadyah (2020)

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Date: 2020-09-15

Last Updated: 2024-06-01

Categories: Seder Akhilat haSimanim, Epidemics & Pandemics

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., COVID-19 coronavirus, festive meals, סגולות segulot, סימנים simanim, סעודות seudot

Excerpt: 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. . . .

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It is customary to precede the New Year holiday meal with symbolic foods eaten with appropriate blessings and wishes suggested by their name or quality. This edition has been especially revised for the beginning of the year 5781 (2020-2021) with emendations and additions suitable to our experience of the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Contributor: Ḥayyim Obadyah

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Name: Ḥayyim Obadyah
Bio: Hayyim Obadyah is retired from a career in nonprofit management (specializing in emergency planning, especially coordination of social services after major disaster) and now spends considerable time as a student of Masoretic Studies, as well as developing liturgy.
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Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/hayyim-obadyah

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Title: Title page from Seder Simanim l’Rosh haShanah 5781 (Hayyim Obadyah 2020)
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