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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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The Haggada, or ``telling,'' is read, teaching the Passover story through parables, songs, legends and psalms. Goldstein enjoys the Seder because it involves children and adults, who take turns reading from the Haggada. ``You read from the Haggada and stop to eat a special food like the roasted egg or the charoset. |
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