What is a simanim card and what is written on it?

A simanim card is a printed or acrylic card displaying each of the Rosh Hashanah symbolic foods together with its bracha and Yehi Ratzon prayer, so everyone at the table can recite the blessings correctly. Waterdale simanim cards range from die-cut apple and pomegranate designs to lucite, marble-look, and hand-painted styles that double as place-setting decor.

Why do we say Yehi Ratzon over the simanim on Rosh Hashanah?

Each Yehi Ratzon is a short prayer built on a play of the food's name — dates (tamar) that harm be finished (yitamu), pomegranates that our merits multiply like its seeds. Reciting them turns the first meal of the Jewish New Year into a series of blessings for the year ahead, which is exactly why the full text sits beside each siman on the card.

Do I need a simanim card at every place setting?

One card can serve the whole table, but many hosts set a simanim card at each place setting so every guest can follow the brachos and Yehi Ratzon texts without waiting for a machzor to be passed around. Card sets — like the Classic 2.0 and Diamond simanim card sets — are designed exactly for this, and they double as elegant Rosh Hashanah place cards.

Are the simanim blessings different for Ashkenazim and Sephardim?

The core Yehi Ratzon texts are largely shared, but Sephardic communities (Edut Mizrach) often conduct a fuller simanim seder with additional foods, while the Ashkenazi custom typically centers on the apple in honey and a shorter list. Choose a simanim card whose text and order match your family's minhag — designs vary in which simanim they include.

What styles of simanim cards are there?

This collection spans die-cut apple and pomegranate simanim cards, hand-painted cards by Batya and Zelda, toile and honeycomb prints, marble-round and artistic designs, a color-it acrylic simanim card for kids, and a leather simanim pouch and card set — from playful to heirloom, there's a card for every Rosh Hashanah tablescape.

Can simanim cards be reused every year?

Yes — acrylic and leather simanim cards are made to return to the Yom Tov table year after year. Acrylic wipes clean of honey and wine in seconds, and the leather pouch set stores flat with your Rosh Hashanah tableware, making it a one-time purchase that becomes part of the family's holiday routine.

Is a simanim card set a good Rosh Hashanah gift?

A simanim card set is one of the most-loved Rosh Hashanah hostess gifts — useful the very night it's received, beautiful on the table, and reusable every year. The leather simanim pouch and card set arrives ready to gift for a new home, a first Yom Tov as hosts, or a thank-you before the seuda.

Do the simanim have to be said in a specific order?

There is a customary sequence — many communities begin with dates, others with the apple in honey — but families rightly follow their own minhag or the order in their machzor. A simanim card lays out an accepted order clearly, so whoever leads can move from siman to siman without flipping pages mid-meal.

White leatherette Simanim pouch with Shana Tova lettering from Waterdale Collection, open with the leather cards

White & Black leather Simanim pouch and cards for Rosh Hashana

White & Black Shana Tova pouch and simanim cards for Rosh Hashanah table decor

Rosh Hashanah napkin wraps and a simanim card on a holiday tablescape

White & Black Simanim pouch with cards, styled for Rosh Hashanah decorations

White & Gold leatherette Simanim pouch shown open with the leather simanim cards

White leather Simanim (סימנים) card with the Hebrew Rosh Hashanah blessings

Leather simanim cards printed in Hebrew for Rosh Hashana

White & Silver leatherette Simanim pouch with cards for Rosh Hashanah table decor

White & Silver leatherette Simanim pouch, closed view showing the folded design

White & Black Simanim pouch and cards, a Rosh Hashana gift idea

Black leather Simanim pouch with white card set label, closed flat lay view of this holiday judaica accessory.

Leather Simanim Pouch & Card Set

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Pack of 4 Cards

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Color: White & Silver

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The Leather Simanim Pouch & Card Set from Waterdale Collection is a set of four simanim (סימנים) cards for Rosh Hashanah, crafted in refined faux leather. Each card carries the Rosh Hashanah (ראש השנה) blessings — the prayers said over apple and honey, pomegranate, dates, and the other symbolic foods of the Jewish New Year — and slips into a coordinating leather pouch with Shana Tova lettering that keeps the set together from one Yom Tov to the next.

Set a card at each place setting so every guest can follow along with the blessings. At 5" x 8", each durable leather card is easy to read and just as easy to pass around during the holiday meal.

The Leather Simanim Pouch & Card Set also makes a thoughtful Rosh Hashanah gift, hostess gift, or housewarming gift. Personalize the pouch to create a Judaica keepsake that returns to the table year after year.

DIMENSIONS: 5" x 8"
PRODUCT SPECS: Faux leather cards and pouch with Shana Tova lettering
INCLUDES: Set of 4 leather cards, coordinating leather pouch
NUSACH: Ashkenaz / Sefard
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Product Reviews

Simanim pouch

It is a great concept I just did not realize it was leather, for some reason I thought cards would be lucite/ acrylic. It is hard to clean leather. I came up with an idea and I had everyone put it under the plastic.

Beautiful piece

Classy & Useful

Love these new Simanim Cards. It's a classical upgrade to the acrylic ones.