Haggadah

Haggadah

Post-Holocaust American Judaism Collections

2015

Moshe Kornfield, Scott Meyer, Elias Sacks, Stephanie Yuhas, Andrew Violet, Jane Thaler

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Haggadah Kadesh: Reciting a blessing over wine sanctifying the holiday Ur’chatz: Washing hands Karpas: Eating a vegetable dipped in salt water Yachatz: Breaking a piece of matzah, the unleavened bread traditionally eaten on Passover Magid: Reciting the Exodus narrative Rachtzah: Washing hands a second time Motzi: Reciting a blessing over bread Matzah: Reciting a blessing over matzah Maror: Eating bitter herbs Koreich: Eating a sandwich of matzah and bitter herbs Shulchan Orech: Eating a festive meal Tzafun: Eating the afikoman, a final portion of matzah Bareich: Reciting a blessing of gratitude known as the Grace after Meals Hallel: Reciting Hallel, psalms of praise Nirtzah: Reciting a concluding prayer Recited during the seder, the Haggadah is a text that recounts the Exodus narrative amid a collection of songs, prayers, and stories. The current form of the Haggadah emerged during the Middle Ages, and since the invention of the printing press, there have been thousands of different editions. The text has also been translated into more languages and has been revised more times than any other Jewish book. (Yosef Yerushalmi, Haggadah and History, 1975) The Haggadah guides seder participants through the following steps: Matzah: Unleavened bread, recalling bread baked in haste as the Jewish people fled slavery. Maror: Bitter herbs, symbolizing the bitterness and harshness of slavery. Charoset: A sweet, brown mixture representing the mortar used by the Jewish people when slaves in Egypt. Karpas: A vegetable, often parsley or potato, symbolizing spring, which is dipped into salt water, symbolizing tears. Zeroah: A small piece of roasted meat (shank bone) representing the sacrificial lamb. Beitzah: A hard-boiled egg, symbolizing the festival sacrifice that was offered as part of the service in the ancient Temple. Wine: Four cups of wine, symbolizing four references to redemption found in the biblical Exodus narrative.