Word: haggadah
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Passover began at sundown on Wednesday. It commemorates the Exodus from Egypt over 3000 years ago, when the Jewish people escaped but didn't have time to let their bread rise. Thursday night's seder at the White House reportedly featured a reading of the Haggadah and traditional Jewish goodies like kugel and a roasted...
...choose a few pregnant situations: the first from Matthew and Luke, the others largely from Mark--and then I'll examine them imaginatively but responsibly, adding a few glancing notes on my sources. It is, after all, a process with which Jesus himself would have been familiar--Haggadah and Midrash being traditional, and often narrative, expansions of Hebrew scripture...
...hold Passover Seders this week, in many households the ritual celebration of deliverance from Egypt will be followed by talk of a new predicament. Prompted partly by a debate between two pugnacious lawyer-authors--and partly by dire statistics, which, over years, have become as rote as the Passover Haggadah--a generation will look at its children and speculate whether its grandchildren will be Jews...
...like to take this opportunity to introduce to non-Jews a crucial part of the Passover seder. Midway through the reading of the Haggadah, before the Passover meals is served, the participants raise their glasses and recite a passage that begins, "In every generation someone rises to destroy...
...Passover is when Jews celebrate the exodus from Egypt. We prepare a ritual feast and eat it along with recitation from the Haggadah...