haggadah

Definitions


[haɡaˈdɑː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover, including a narrative of the Exodus
(e.g: about six weeks before Passover we began to study the Haggadah)

- a legend, parable, or anecdote used to illustrate a point of the Law in the Talmud


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Origin:
from Hebrew Haggāḏāh, ‘tale, parable’, from higgīḏ ‘tell, expound’




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