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Haggadah
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Haggadah

 or Haggada

In 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).



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Alongside the legal discussion about women's hair-covering is the aggadic and mystical imagery.
After comparing Halakhic with Aggadic, the narrative part of the Torah, theological programs, he takes seven exemplary Halakhic texts that illustrate principal part of the implicit system of animating the Halakhah of Rabbinic Judaism in its formative age.
For Conservatives, it may be sufficient to construct behavior based on meaningful interpretations of rabbinic texts and traditions, aggadic as well as legal, even when such a view is not shared by dominant authorities.
 
 
 
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