Haggadah

[ huh-gah-duh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-gah-dah; Ashkenazic Hebrew hah-gaw-duh ]

noun

, plural Sephardic Hebrew Hag·ga·doth, Hag·ga·dot [hah-gah-, dawt], Ashkenazic Hebrew Hag·ga·dos [hah-, gaw, -dohs], English Hag·ga·das.

1. a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.
2. Aggadah.

Haggadah

/ həˈɡædɪk; haɡaˈdaː; -ɡɔˈdɔ; -ˈɡɑː-; həˈɡɑːdə /

noun

1. 1. a book containing the order of service of the traditional Passover meal
   2. the narrative of the Exodus from Egypt that constitutes the main part of that service See also Seder
2. another word for Aggadah

Derived Forms

• haggadic, adjective

Other Words From

• hag·gad·ic [h, uh, -, gad, -ik, -, gah, -dik], hag·gadi·cal adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Haggadah¹

From Hebrew; Aggadah

Word History and Origins

Origin of Haggadah¹

C19: from Hebrew haggādāh a story, from hagged to tell

Example Sentences

In honor of the first Seder tonight, a re-link to a tough review by Leon Weiseltier of a new translation of the Passover Haggadah.

From The Daily Beast

In every generation, my haggadah teaches me, bigots rise up to discriminate against and attack minorities.

From The Daily Beast

Philo, expanding a favorite image of the Haggadah, illustrates God's creation by the simile of a king founding a city.

From Project Gutenberg

And judged by this test we see that the Haggadah is the more ancient, the primal development of the Hebrew mind.

From Project Gutenberg

The Haggadah is rich also in allegorical speculation, of which there are traces in the Biblical books themselves.

From Project Gutenberg

So, too, the Haggadah agrees in numerous points with Philo's stories about the patriarchs.

From Project Gutenberg

The model which the writer has had in view in this Haggadah is the forty-first chapter of the Book of Genesis.

From Project Gutenberg