Haggadah
Americannoun
plural
Haggadoth, Haggadot,plural
Haggados,plural
Haggadas-
a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.
noun
Other Word Forms
- haggadic adjective
- haggadical adjective
Etymology
Origin of Haggadah
From Hebrew; Aggadah
Example Sentences
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Still, after the clamor died down, Kaplan’s accessible Haggadah became an example for many subsequent versions.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
His colleagues at JTS denounced him for the 1941 publication of his amended Passover Haggadah.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
“One of the key lines in the Haggadah is the idea that in each generation it’s incumbent upon us to see ourselves in the Passover story,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 3, 2023
There’s an exquisite Haggadah, handwritten in Calcutta and festooned with Mughal-inspired illumination, whose pages tell the Passover story in both Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023
Aaron’s hands shook and a page in the Haggadah flipped over by itself.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
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