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Haggadahor HaggadaIn Judaism, the text that guides the performance of ritual acts and prayers at the Seder dinner celebrating Passover. The Haggadah retells the story of Exodus, offering commentaries that provide a religious philosophy of Jewish history and supplying answers to the traditional questions asked by children at the beginning of the Seder. More broadly, the term Haggadah can refer to the part of rabbinical literature not concerned with the law (e.g., stories, parables, legends, history, and astronomy). How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Even the Aggadah and Jewish
parodies such as the Toldot do not deny it. As Joseph Heinemann has pointed out,
classical Aggadah originated in the Palestinian Jewish community as a
response to historical threats to the meaning of Jewish life. [12] The irony of using
aggadah to critique aggadah should make us cautious. |
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