Haggadah

American  

[huh-gah-duh, hah-gah-dah, hah-gaw-duh] / həˈgɑ də, hɑ gɑˈdɑ, hɑˈgɔ də /

noun

PLURAL

Haggadoth, Haggadot

PLURAL

Haggados

PLURAL

Haggadas

1. a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.

2. Aggadah.

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Haggadah British  

/ həˈɡædɪk, haɡaˈdaː, -ɡɔˈdɔ, -ˈɡɑː-, həˈɡɑːdə /

noun

1. 1. a book containing the order of service of the traditional Passover meal

   2. the narrative of the Exodus from Egypt that constitutes the main part of that service See also Seder

2. another word for Aggadah

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Other Word Forms

• haggadic adjective
• haggadical adjective

Etymology

Origin of Haggadah

From Hebrew; Aggadah

Example Sentences

Or using the new, 65-page “Freedom Haggadah,” which is adorned with photos of protests, poems and visions of the Passover story as a call to fight.

From Washington Post

“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

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

Schonfeld’s prayer, called “The Fifth Child: The Refugee Child,” fits in a centuries-old section of the Haggadah that describes four paradigmatic children and how they would respond to learning about the Israelites’ exodus.

From Washington Post

The QR — or “quick response” — code is how guests will have access to the Haggadah, the text read during the Passover Seder and which tells the story of how the Jewish people escaped slavery.

From New York Times