Title:
Night of beginnings : a Passover haggadah / Marcia Falk ; with drawings by the author.
ISBN:
9780827615519
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Publication Information:
Philadelphia : The Jewish Publication Society ; Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2022]
Physical Description:
xxiii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Opening the festival -- Beginning the seder -- Before the Maggid: preparing to listen -- Maggid: the telling -- After the Maggid: celebrating the story -- The festival meal -- Concluding the seder -- Songs.
Summary:
"A groundbreaking haggadah that presents the Exodus narrative in its entirety and highlights the actions of its female characters. Falk's ... commentaries invite us to bring personal reflections to the story; her revolutionary blessings, in Hebrew and English, offer a nonpatriarchal vision of the divine; and her kavanot--meditative directions for prayer--introduce a new genre to the seder ritual"--Page 4 of cover.
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Language Note:
Hebrew and English.
OCLC Number:
on1263743092
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
