Haggadot and essays for Pesah and all year round
This is the first edition of הגדה ברורה, the only modern haggadah that is designed to help you use the Maggid as it was originally designed to be used. This edition is my preliminary attempt at converting the accurate theory of how the Maggid works into a usable haggadah. The text is exactly …
Continue reading about A Haggadah that makes senseהגדה ברורה
הגדה ברורה is less a new Haggadah than it is a new way of using the Haggadah we already have. Its purpose is simply to show you how the Maggid we all use today with a mix of puzzlement and apathy can be (and should be) used as an effective tool to tell the story of yetziat mitzrayim. However, there's far more than one way to the story of the exodus from Egypt. In …
הגדה ברורה is a vindication of a traditional text. It shows how the apparently opaque phrases opening with ארמי אבד אבי repeated Seder after Seder are not what they at first glance appear, but a sophisticated tool for doing what you are actually supposed to be doing on Seder night: telling the story of yetziat mitzrayim. Without making any changes to the established liturgy at all, you can dramatically upgrade your Seder night. הגדה תקומת ישראל, …
Continue Reading about The first reactionary Haggadah.הגדה תקומת ישראל
