haggada
IPA: hʌgˈʌdʌ
Root Word: Haggada
noun
- Alternative form of Aggadah [A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.]
- Alternative form of Haggadah [(Judaism) The text which is recited at Seder during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus.]
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Examples of "haggada" in Sentences
- A haggada from, say 1320 in German may have disproved my point, but none exist.
- The writing of this midrash is fifteenth-century work; it contains the Book of Tobias as a haggada on the promise Jacob makes to give tithes to God (Gen., xxviii, 22).
- Besides my earlier point of the 1609 publications of translated haggadot at the beginning of the age of reason should refute your argument that haggada in the vernacular is recent.