Passover Haggada - Eilat Interfaith Encounter on 8th March 2007:

Theme:  Passover Haggada

Passover Haggada was created by our sages of blessed memory. The Passover Seder first appears in Pesachi, Tractate of the Talmud, after the destruction of the 2nd Temple, with guidelines of the Seder from the second century. Women are full part and obligated in the precept of the four glasses, as they were too part of the miracle.

The goal of the Haggada is to implement "And thou shalt tell thy son", and its pedagogical structure is aimed to achieve this purpose.

There is an opinion that in each of us there is something of each of the four sons.

There are a few new Haggadas:

Bat Horin – a feminist Haggada of the Conservative movement;

"This Night" – an Israeli Haggada;

Goldsmidt Haggadah – with historical analysis of the development of the Haggada, followed by the Haggada's text;

"Sages Haggada" by Shmuel and Zeev Safrai – tells the story of the development of the Haggada as a project of our Sages of blessed memory;

"Amsterdam Haggada" – printed in three languages: Hebrew, Ladino and Yiddish, and in both Hebrew and Rashi fonts.

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