Your community's minhagim/segulos

Chickensoupprof

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 11:46 am

I want to get inspired what are your communities minhagim and segulos for the heilige teg/yontif etc.
Please share.

amother

Lime

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 12:00 pm

Davening.

Teshuva, tefillah and tzedakah.

We stick to the tried and true formula, without getting creative and esoteric. Sorry.

kiti

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 12:02 pm

Chickensoupprof wrote:

I want to get inspired what are your communities minhagim and segulos for the heilige teg/yontif etc.
Please share.

Following. Really interested to hear

Trademark

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 12:06 pm

We do the typical simanim (apple in honey, pomegranate, sweet carrots, head of fish etc).

We don't eat nuts or vinegar during Tishrei.

We eat round challos dipped in honey the entire Tishrei.

We don't wear gold jewelry on YK.

There's probably a ton more, I'll add as I remember them.

NotInNJMommy

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:31 pm

Chickensoupprof wrote:

Did y saw a nes?

Well I don’t know. Maybe? When I said it on RH was usually when I said more tehillim anyways. (Whole sefer shabbos mevorchim, daily shiurim etc)

I will say the years I’ve stayed up on hoshana rabba and said it with the special tefillos after each sefer and had a kavannah, I’ve seen it answered explicitly that year.

amother

Tan

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:33 pm

My husband wears a kittel on RH like on Yom kippur.
In the shul he grew up in, the men wear tall white hats. I actually only saw it once so I can't describe it. My father in law was wearing it. My husband doesn't.

amother

Leaf

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:44 pm

We dip the apple in sugar.

About segulos, I'm all for the teshuva tefillah and tzedaka approach.
No need for anything "fancy".

I have said the whole tehillim on Rosh Hashanah.

Many people say it twice, because there are 150 perakim x2 = 300 which is the gematria of kaparrah

flowerpower

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:48 pm

We don’t sleep in. My mother used to wake us up early( for a shabbos morning)

We daven all tefillos

Say tehillim when possible

Eat shechiyanu the second night

Wish everyone a leshana tova etc the first night

amother

Oatmeal

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:48 pm

Chickensoupprof wrote:

Did anyone tried the whole sefer tehelim?

Yes my dh tries to finish it twice on the first night! It's hard...
Come to think of it, I'm sure he said it twice the year that he had a car crash and came out pretty much unscathed bH! I need to check with him.

amother

Cherry

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 5:57 pm

Not to derail, but I was an older single and my family split up tehillim to have it finished twice on RH night, and I got engaged that year Smile

Can’t get into details, but my shidduch was really a neis.

My husband wears a kittel on RH (as well as YK), other minhagim are pretty standard.

amother

Impatiens

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 6:04 pm

amother Lime wrote:

Davening.

Teshuva, tefillah and tzedakah.

We stick to the tried and true formula, without getting creative and esoteric. Sorry.

Much of the Torah is esoteric.

kiti

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 6:12 pm

amother Cherry wrote:

Not to derail, but I was an older single and my family split up tehillim to have it finished twice on RH night, and I got engaged that year Smile

Can’t get into details, but my shidduch was really a neis.

My husband wears a kittel on RH (as well as YK), other minhagim are pretty standard.

I love this!!! SO special

amother

Bluebell

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 6:16 pm

Basically all the same no naps, simanim, new knife for segula parnassa, fods all sweet nothing sour, salty and husband wears a white yarmulka for yomim noraim. I wear white on yom kipper.

amother

Molasses

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 6:18 pm

Apple honey
Kup of fish - eat
Rosh keves- just look
Leek
Tzimmes
Ferfel
No nuts no vinegar
Round challah
A zillion more I can’t think of off hand for rosh hashana

amother

Butterscotch

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 7:34 pm

White kippal and kittel/Kaftan is minhag yerushalim. Dh wears it bec he's generally in uman. Most men there are from EY, so they keep that minhag
Then the regulars mentioned up thread.
No vinegar (in breslov not so makpid)
Basic simanim, fish head, sweet carrots, pomegranate and shehchiyanu 2nd night.
Loads of shana tovas on first night. Some go to all the grandparents that are in walking distance. (I do phone calls cuz most are not)
No sleeping in or napping.
Satmar (my parents) the women wear just a white tichel for shul.
No wigs, RH and YK think long bandana style.
If I go to satmar I wear that as well. With little kids, I switch off with my siblings and wear my shaitel with a white tichel on top bec I go to a corner unaffiliated shul. (Typical chasidish Friday night look)

flowerpower

Wed, Sep 13 2023, 8:32 pm

amother Cherry wrote:

Not to derail, but I was an older single and my family split up tehillim to have it finished twice on RH night, and I got engaged that year Smile

Can’t get into details, but my shidduch was really a neis.

My husband wears a kittel on RH (as well as YK), other minhagim are pretty standard.

Yes. Saying tehillim twice on rh night is a great segula! Glad you found your bashert!