During this meal, the story of the Exodus from Egypt is retold using a special text called the Haggadah.

Often the leader of the seder and the other adults at the meal will use prompted responses from the Haggadah, which states, " The more one talks about the Exodus from Egypt, the more praiseworthy he is.

The Seder is integral to Jewish faith and identity: as explained in the Haggadah, if not for divine intervention and the Exodus, the Jewish people would still be slaves in Egypt.

Each participant receives a copy of the Haggadah, which is often a traditional version: an ancient text that contains the complete Seder service.

In the early 1980s, when speaking at Oberlin College Hillel, Susannah Heschel was introduced to an early feminist Haggadah that suggested adding a crust of bread on the seder plate, as a sign of solidarity with Jewish lesbians ( as some would say there's as much room for a lesbian in Judaism as there is for a crust of bread on the seder plate ).

The traditional Haggadah speaks of " four sons "— one who is wise, one who is wicked, one who is simple, and one who does not know to ask.

", is characterized by the Haggadah as isolating himself from the Jewish people, standing by objectively and watching their behavior rather than participating.

Abigail is described in the account as being beautiful and intelligent, and the Haggadah treats Abigail as being one of the four most beautiful people in Jewish history ( the other three being Sarah, Rahab, and Esther ); in the Haggadah it is claimed that David nearly fell in love with her while she was still the wife of Nabal, but Abigail's moral strength and dignity prevented any liaisons, although she is also criticized for stating remember your handmaid, as in the Hagaddah's view this was unbecoming of a married woman.

The most important item in the National Museum in Sarajevo is the Sarajevo Haggadah, a Jewish illuminated codex originally from 12th century Spain.

The Haggadah (, " telling ") is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder.

Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the Scriptural commandment to each Jew to " tell your son " of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah.

According to Jewish tradition, the Haggadah was compiled during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, although the exact date is unknown.

The Rylands Haggadah ( Rylands Hebrew MS. 6 ) is one of the finest Haggadot in the world.

Published in 1526, the Prague Haggadah is known for its attention to detail in lettering and introducing many of the themes still found in modern texts.

Laban is referenced significantly in the Passover Haggadah, in the context of the answer to the traditional child's question, " Why is this night different from all other nights?

This passage is read with emphasis in the Passover Haggadah and Seder.

Sarajevo is also home to the Sarajevo Haggadah, one of the oldest surviving such texts, originating from the 14th century and brought by Jews fleeing the Spanish inquisition.

The Haggadah explores the meaning of those verses, and embellishes the story.

It celebrated the liberation struggle of Black America alongside that of ancient Israel from Pharaoh, and was the first Haggadah to go beyond the original Biblical story.

Image of a Hazzan | cantor reading the Passover story in Al Andalus, from the 14th century Haggadah of Barcelona.

The story thus serves to reinforce one of the central messages of the Passover Haggadah ; that the Old Testament cycle of exile, persecution and return recurs again and again, and links the observant Jew in the Diaspora to the Land of Israel.

The article also sets out the story of the young Jewish girl, Mira Papo, whom Korkut and his wife hid from the Nazis as they were acting to save the Haggadah.

Sacred Jewish texts written in the Holyland at this time are the Gemara ( 400 ), the Jerusalem Talmud ( 500 ) and the Passover Haggadah.

Even illuminations in Jewish manuscripts in the Middle Ages could show Noah's dove with an olive branch, for example, the Golden Haggadah ( about 1420 ).

According to art historian Diana L. Linden, the panels ' sequence relates to that of the Haggadah, the Jewish Passover Seder text which follows a narrative of slavery, deliverance and redemption.

Jewish ceremonial art | Illuminated Haggadah, ( 14th century )

In spring and summer 2012 it was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the exhibition ' The Rylands Haggadah: Medieval Jewish Art in Context '.

Soon after, in the early 16th century, the Sarajevo Haggadah came to Sarajevo along with Jewish refugees from Andalusia.

In a review of the book, Irwin M. Berg, a lawyer and friend of the Kaifeng Jewish community, claims Weisz never figured the many religious documents — Torah, Haggadah, prayer books, etc .— into his thesis and only relied on the stelae themselves.

Shibbolei ha-Leket ( Hebrew, " The Gleaned Ears ") is concerned with the liturgy, the Passover Haggadah, and laws pertaining to Shabbat and the Jewish Holidays.

It is the source for some Jewish humor circulated on the Internet, often without attribution, such as " The Feast and Fast Yo-Yo Diet Guide to the Holidays ," " The Ten Suggestions " and " The Extremely Reform Passover Haggadah.

The " Freedom Seder " was the first widely published Passover Haggadah that intertwined the archetypal liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Ancient Egypt with more modern liberation struggles such as the Civil Rights Movement and the women's movement.

'" ( Exodus 13: 8 ) Traditionally, families and friends gather in the evening to read the text of the Haggadah, an ancient work derived from the Mishnah ( Pesahim 10 ).

The Haggadah contains the narrative of the Israelite exodus from Egypt, special blessings and rituals, commentaries from the Talmud, and special Passover songs.

During the Passover Seder ( the annual commemoration of the Exodus from Egypt ), one re-enacts ancient customs in the Haggadah.

The earliest known Haggadot produced as works in their own right are manuscripts from the 13th and 14th centuries, such as " The Golden Haggadah " ( probably Barcelona c. 1320 ) and the " Sarajevo Haggadah " ( late fourteenth century ).

The Haggadah features over sixty woodcut illustrations picturing " scenes and symbols of the Passover ritual ; [...] biblical and rabbinic elements that actually appear in the Haggadah text ; and scenes and figures from biblical or other sources that play no role in the Haggadah itself, but have either past or future redemptive associations ".

Apart from its daily use, Judeo-Berber was used for explaining religious texts, and occasionally written, using Hebrew characters ; a manuscript Pesah Haggadah written in Judeo-Berber has been reprinted ( Galand-Pernet et al.

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A Dayenu from Bird's head Haggadah | Birds ' Head Haggada Birds ' Southern Germany, c. 1300 Scribe: Menahem Parchment

Drollery detail from The Rylands Haggadah