What is eaten on Rosh Hashanah eve?
Simanim (symbolic foods): apple dipped in honey, pomegranate, fish, dates, and more, each with a special prayer
Source: Shulchan Aruch OC 583
In detail
On Rosh Hashanah eve, special symbolic foods (simanim) are eaten, each with a prayer for the coming year: apple in honey: for a sweet new year; pomegranate: may our merits multiply like its seeds; fish head: to be at the head, not the tail; dates, black-eyed peas, leek, beets, and squash, each with a wordplay-based prayer in Hebrew.
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