My People's Passover Haggadah - Lawrence A. Hoffman - Bog

In two volumes, this groundbreaking commentary features traditional Hebrew text with a new translation designed to let people know xactly what the Haggadeh says. Introductory essays help you understand the historical roots of the ancient holiday, the development of the Haggadeh and how to make sense out of texts and cystoms that evolved over more than a thousand years.Framed with beautifully designed Talmud-style pages, these volumes feature commentaries by scholars from all demoninations of Judaism. You are treated to insights by experts in such fields as the Haggadeh''s history, its biblical roots, its confrontation with modernity and it relationship to rabbinic midrash and Jewish law, feminism, Chasidism, theology and kabbalah.No other Passover resource provides the English language reader with such a wide-ranging understanding of the Haggadeh, the key to having the most meaningful Seder ever.