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A Passover Haggadah : go forth and learn / David Silber with Rachel Furst.

Contributor(s): Language: English, Hebrew Original language: Hebrew Publisher: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, 2011Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xvii, 130, 79 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780827612358
  • 0827612354
Uniform titles:
  • Haggadah. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 296.4/5371 23
LOC classification:
  • BM674.643 .S585 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Arami oved avi: the core text of the Haggadah -- Gerut, avdut, innuy: the covenantal formula -- Exodus: an individual and collective coming of age -- Elu eser makot: rereading the plagues -- Korban Pesah: the sacrifice that shaped a nation -- Lot and the destruction of Sodom: a prefiguring of Exodus -- Creation themes in the Exodus story -- Hallel at the Seder: a song of redemption.
Summary: Hebrew and English text with new commentary and essays. Rabbi Silber has given us two books in one: the Haggadah itself, in English and Hebrew, with his seder commentary and a collection of essays that provide close readings of the classic biblical and rabbinic texts that inform Seder-night ritual and narration. Both parts work beautifully together to illuminate the central themes of Passover: peoplehood, Covenant, our relationship to ritual, God's presence in history, and other important issues that resonate with us all. Just as midrash attempts to bridge the gap between ancient text and cont.
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Text of Haggadah in Hebrew with English translation ; commentary in English.

Includes bibliographical references.

Arami oved avi: the core text of the Haggadah -- Gerut, avdut, innuy: the covenantal formula -- Exodus: an individual and collective coming of age -- Elu eser makot: rereading the plagues -- Korban Pesah: the sacrifice that shaped a nation -- Lot and the destruction of Sodom: a prefiguring of Exodus -- Creation themes in the Exodus story -- Hallel at the Seder: a song of redemption.

Hebrew and English text with new commentary and essays. Rabbi Silber has given us two books in one: the Haggadah itself, in English and Hebrew, with his seder commentary and a collection of essays that provide close readings of the classic biblical and rabbinic texts that inform Seder-night ritual and narration. Both parts work beautifully together to illuminate the central themes of Passover: peoplehood, Covenant, our relationship to ritual, God's presence in history, and other important issues that resonate with us all. Just as midrash attempts to bridge the gap between ancient text and cont.

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