| The last words of the Passover Haggadah, the liturgy used for the Seder, are a good example. |
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| Instead of significantly changing the basic text, the new Haggadah adds to it. |
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| The Passover prayer book, the Haggadah, which calls on God to pour his wrath onto the nations, may, he suggests, be a good place to start. |
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| So the Haggadah also reflects the sense of grief, helplessness — and craving for retaliation — that many rabbis cultivated over the centuries. |
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| But that kid was too busy reading the commentaries in the Haggadah to ask anything at all. |
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| The Four Children section of the Seder is among the more enigmatic passages of the Haggadah. |
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| A kibbutz Haggadah shows the wicked child as a city dweller. A communist Haggadah shows the wicked child as a business man. |
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| The last child didn't say anything, but managed to look manifestly bored, as Zayde continued reading the Haggadah, oblivious to the murmuring. |
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| He has published articles in Hebrew and English and has recently edited, translated and provided commentary for a Passover Haggadah. |
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| The text of the Haggadah, the central part of the Seder, was first printed in 1482 in Guadalajara in Spain. |
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| In honor of the first Seder tonight, a re-link to a tough review by Leon Weiseltier of a new translation of the Passover Haggadah. |
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| In every generation, my Haggadah teaches me, bigots rise up to discriminate against and attack minorities. |
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| Interstingly enough, in the Haggadah, the Serpent in the garden is actually in charge of the other creatures of the garden, and walks upright, and has hands. |
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| Did you know that the green part of the horseradish plant was one of the five bitter herbs served on the traditional Passover seder plate during the reading of the Haggadah? |
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| The town nearly lost the Haggadah forever. |
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| One illustration that I find particularly meaningful comes from the Haggadah put out by the Rabbinical Assembly, and it shows paper cutouts of four bigger people with four littler people within. |
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| By telling us the story of the four children, each with a distinct question and each with a distinct answer, the Haggadah is telling us to accept each person where they are and to begin from there. |
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| For this reason the most exciting cultural event of 2002 was probably the definitive transfer of the Haggadah to a showroom of the Sarajevo museum. |
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| The primitive woodcuts by an unknown artist imitate the copper engravings in the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah, which were executed by Abraham b. Jacob, a former Protestant pastor who converted to Judaism. |
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| The text of this Haggadah is accompanied by a double commentary, half-mystical, written by Judah Leyb b. Elijah, rabbi of Horodetz, and his son Ze'ev Wolf, rabbi of Pinsk. |
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| According to the scholars the Haggadah as it is known today as a separate liturgical text was first drawn up around the seventh century of the common era. |
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| Modelled on the Venetian edition of 1629, this Haggadah includes the Judeo-Italian translation by Leone Modena, along with his abridgement of Abravanel's commentary. |
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| You remember how on Passover they tell you the Haggadah can be read as an allegory and that there are layers of things behind it? |
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