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Culinary Prayers — “Yehi Ratzon”

A women’s tradition, followed largely in the Sephardic community, that provides a tasty counterpoint to the traditional male liturgy of the High Holidays. It also provides an opportunity for celebrating Jewish women’s relationship to food as a historic source of creativity and spirituality.

cooking, food, rosh hashanah, Sephardi, women, yehi ratzon

close up of a leek plant in a leek field

Rosh Hashanah Recipes

Sephardic recipes for Rosh Hashanah and blessings for special foods for the holiday

baking, blessing, cooking, food, recipe, rosh hashanah, Sephardi, yehi ratzon

A whole red apple next to a cut apple on a rectangular red plate with a ramekin of honey and a person's fingertips holding a small wooden honey dipper dripping honey into the ramekin