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

Others have created a new Haggadah, the book read during the Seder, to reflect current realities.

From Seattle Times

Others have created a new Haggadah, the book read during the Seder, to reflect the current reality.

From Seattle Times

Or using the new, 65-page “Freedom Haggadah,” which is adorned with photos of protests, poems and visions of the Passover story as a call to fight.

From Washington Post

“One of the key lines in the Haggadah is the idea that in each generation it’s incumbent upon us to see ourselves in the Passover story,” she said.

From Seattle Times

There’s an exquisite Haggadah, handwritten in Calcutta and festooned with Mughal-inspired illumination, whose pages tell the Passover story in both Hebrew and Judeo-Arabic.

From New York Times