Like the Haggadah rabbit, Jews are stuck in the net this Passover

Like the Haggadah rabbit, Jews are stuck in the net this Passover

(RNS) — How do you start a Seder for this year’s Passover? I am glad you asked. This is the order of the blessings: Yayin: The blessing over the wine. Kiddush: The sanctification of the festival. Neirot: The candle lighting for the festival Havdalah: The blessing for Havdalah, which makes a distinction between the holiness of Shabbat and the holiness of Passover Zman: The blessing for this particular time of the year — popularly known as the Sh…

Next week, we will all gather around the Seder table in Ha-Hagdad, and we will read the Haggadah. The Haggadah, as it has been formulated over the generations, is a set of blessings and prayers, and also a Midrash of the Sages. The Avodah writes that the text before us was determined after the time of Abaye and Rava, who lived in the 300s CE. Initially, there were two versions, and from them they composed a third version - the one we have. In t…

Passover haggadahs have long included pictures of rabbit hunts. This year shows us why. – The American Israelite Newspaper

By Benjamin Resnick  (JTA) — The Passover Haggadah is one of the few sacred Jewish texts that has a long history of including illustrations, and among the most remarkable are detailed images of rabbit hunts that often appear in the opening pages, even before the text of the Seder really begins. The images, which are varied in style and can be found in editions dating back to medieval and early-modern Germany, often present hunters and dogs chasi…