Haggadah
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- noun
- /həˈɡɑːdə/
- Specialized
- The Haggadah includes traditional prayers and reflections that guide the Seder ritual each year.
- Haggadah for a Seder
- Haggadah, the Passover
- traditional Haggadah
Examples
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Each small piece will add something to the story of the haggadah and its creation.
Blog text (11) -
He recited from the Haggadah.
Fiction book (1994) -
The one where my husband reads from the same haggadah that my mother gave us for a wedding gift.
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The Sarajevo haggadah is a real book, while the story presented in Brooks' novel is simply speculation.
Blog text (11) -
Miriam is still poring over her Haggadah.
Fiction book (1996) -
And we have here in the Haggadah examples of four kinds of children—each with his or her own needs and problems.
Fiction book (1996) -
We learn in the chapter about the haggadah's escape from the Nazis that it was taken to a village high in the mountains where it was hidden in the library of a mosque.
Blog text (22) -
One example that Schram discusses at length is the Passover seder in which an oral reading of the Haggadah retells and relives the Jewish people's exodus from Egypt and their development into a nation.
Academic text (1997) -
This is the fictionalized story of an actual artifact, the Sarajevo Haggadah (a Jewish religious text that instructs on the Passover Seder), that was unusual in that it is illustrated, was created in medieval Spain, and has survived.
Blog text (22) -
During the Passover meal, we recited the Haggadah, sharing its stories and teachings with the family.
Synonyms
A part of Jewish religious writings that tells stories and moral teachings in the Talmud
Stories and moral teachings in Jewish religious books, not religious law
Surface Forms
Etymology
Haggadah comes from the Hebrew verb lehagid meaning 'to tell', so a Haggadah is a collection of stories, legends and teachings, not laws, that people read to pass on ideas and morals.