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Haggadah noun [ həˈɡɑːdə ]

• the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover, including a narrative of the Exodus.
• "about six weeks before Passover we began to study the Haggadah"
• a legend, parable, or anecdote used to illustrate a point of the Law in the Talmud.
Origin: from Hebrew Haggāḏāh, ‘tale, parable’, from higgīḏ ‘tell, expound’.


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