Definitions for Haggadah

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Haggadah Hag·ga·dah

Spelling: [huh-gah-duh; Sephardic Hebrew hah-gah- Haggadah is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in Haggadah (aaadgghh).

Definitions for Haggadah

noun

1. a book containing the liturgy for the Seder service on the Jewish festival of Passover.
2. Aggadah.
3. the nonlegal or narrative material, as parables, maxims, or anecdotes, in the Talmud and other rabbinical literature, serving either to illustrate the meaning or purpose of the law, custom, or Biblical passage being discussed or to introduce a different, unrelated topic.

Origin of Haggadah

From Hebrew; See origin at Aggadah

Examples for Haggadah

And it is quite true that whatever the Pharisees taught upon those subjects is found in the Haggadah and not in the Halachah.

I asked my father the Four Questions, and we all recited the Haggadah together.

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

It is mainly for the sake of this inquiry that I have given the foregoing explanation of the nature and intention of Haggadah.

No freak of allegory, of word-play, of fantastic juggling with letters and syllables, is without illustration in the Haggadah.

For he bent over his Haggadah, and tears flowed from his weary old eyes.

I have said that Haggadah is interpretation of Scripture in all directions except that of precept.

And Martha sought the mother and told her: "They are reading the Haggadah with six arms."

A connection of some kind there always is between Scripture and Haggadah; but it is sometimes extremely slight.

He came in with the question of the wicked child in the Haggadah: "What business is this of yours?"