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Excerpt from The Union Haggadah: Home Service for the Passover
The assignment to the child Of a prominent part in the Seder service is in consonance with the biblical ordinance: And thou shalt tell thy son in that day (ex. 'xiii: The visible symbols, the living word Of instruction, and…
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The Union Haggadah of 1923 was the Haggadah of the American Reform movement. It’s non-traditional. Traditional Haggadahs tell the Passover story by analyzing Deuteronomy 26:5-8 homiletically, word by word or phrase by phrase, which makes for a choppy presentation. And some of the analysis is obscure. The Union Haggadah just quotes the bible in a narrative format, similar to what I have done in my book. In addition, there is an informative discussion of the origins of the Passover holiday that would be considered heresy among Jews who are not in the Reform movement. Since I was not raised Reform,…
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