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HAGGADAH FOR THE LIBERATED LAMB

Ed. by Roberta Kalechofsky
All are in Hebrew/English text, illustrated and traditional.

pbk.    160 pgs
ISBN: 0-916288-26-9

$14.95

Cloth edition, purple linen with gold lettering, excellent for a bar/bat mitzvah or wedding gift. 916288-27-7

$32.00

Description

Haggadah For the Liberated Lamb was included in an exhibit on "The Politics of Food" at Harvard University, and is included in the exhibit on contemporary haggadot at the Jewish Museum in New York.

The haggadah integrates the traditional Passover story of the liberation of the Hebrews from slavery and their emergence into history with the story of the creation of the world, uniting nature and history in the theme of redemption. Here is a passage which illustrates this:

In lovingkindness You have redeemed us again and again,
In lovingkindness You brought forth Your creatures before Adam,
and not one was afraid;
In lovingkindness You instructed Noah to build an ark
and save each kind from among Your creatures.
Neither are we so hardhearted as
to believe that the earth was created
for us alone....
Out of the dark and out of formlessness
You brought forth life;
Teach us to know Your greatness by Your creatures,
That Your tender mercy is upon them all,
Teach us to live likewise
So that every living creature,
Every beast of the field and fowl of the air
May praise You, and our voice be among them.

Reviews

The Detroit Jewish News

A poetic theology about creation "in language that is lovely, stately and persuasive."

Vintage.

"...takes seriously the Passover theme of Liberation for all of God's creatures."

Rabbi Sidney Jacobs .