haggadah
IPA: hʌgˈʌdʌ
Root Word: Haggadah
noun
- (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.
- Alternative form of Aggadah; Talmudic parable [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.]
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Examples of "haggadah" in Sentences
- I don't know who published my Haggadah.
- I put two links in for Midrash Haggadah.
- Kulp's commentary on the Haggadah has been widely admired.
- Ashkenazi and Sephardic Haggadah alone are quite different.
- They possess the Bible, the Mishnah, the Talmud, and the Haggadah.
- I wouldn't be caught dead editing Haggadah of Pesach, for example.
- Ten years ago I had never read the haggadah, much less a feminist one.
- His name is connected with no halakot, and with a single haggadah only.
- Those are the actual contence of the haggadah they just need expanding.
- The Haggadah quotes for the proposition that the Israelites cried to God.
- The Haggadah explores the meaning of those verses, and embellishes the story.
- Like my grandmother before her, she was a living haggadah -- the keeper of the family story.
- A big fashion of recent times has been to rewrite or repackage the Passover haggadah to fit our individual tastes.
- During World War II, a young partisan is saved by the same Muslim who risks his life to protect the haggadah from the Nazis.
- There are literally hundreds of others, but you get the point: One of the modern freedoms we celebrate at Passover is the freedom to create our own haggadah.
- Thankfully, the haggadah is long enough to allow for a very diverse list of Jewish thinkers, ideas and traditions that would enrich the evening with the glow of peoplehood.
- The Passover haggadah—the book that guides the seder service as prescribed by Jewish tradition—is designed to fulfill the Torah's commandment that Jews remember and retell the journey from slavery to freedom every year.
- A lavishly illuminated medieval Hebrew text, this haggadah is an anomaly that has fascinated scholars for generations and its survival in war-torn Bosnia is hailed as "a symbol of the survival of Sarajevo's multiethnic ideal."