• Apples and Honey: a sweet and hopeful new year.

 

• Round Challah:  the continuous cycle of life and God’s crown.

 

• Pomegranates:  its multiple seeds represent a wish to be filled with good deeds (mitzvot) and merits throughout the year.

 

• Beets: their Hebrew name sounds like the word for "removal," symbolizing the hope that enemies or bad traits are removed.

 

• Leeks or Chard: Their Hebrew name sounds like "to cut down," representing the hope that adversaries are cut off.

 

• Black-Eyed Peas or Fenugreek:  increase and abundance, sounding like the Hebrew word to multiply (yirbu).

 

• Fish Head:  a "head and not a tail," representing leadership and progress.

 

• Honey Cake:  to reinforce the theme of sweetness. 

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