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A Mystical Haggadah: Passover Meditations, Teachings, and Tales

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If you are thinking about this Hagadah, stop right now! Sure it contains the necessary components to lead a seder, but it is not particularly insightful and won't help you or yours to a better or fresher understanding of the text. The stories/legends that are interwoven within the Hagadah feel stale and poorly complement the text. Although they may be beloved tales of scholars of the Zohar, they fail to bring inspiration to the reader. You would be far better off digging out your parents old "Maxwell House" Hagadot out of the attic.

At our seder,with our mixed religious group,it is hard to get intellectual, and have deep discussions about some of the rabbinical commentaries. What is easier to do is to get folks to think about the symbols of the Passover experience ie matzah, charoset, maror, egg , etc and ask the group to imagine the "deeper meaning" of the seder symbols on a personal level. A Mystical Haggadah gave me the needed material to explain to our attendees the "invisible world" of sefirot through the ritual objects/eatings of the Passover service. I then used the Seder Plate and the ritual dippings, matzah eatings as a "Jewish Show and Tell" (reading to the group from book's mystical explanations as we went along). The book is well written and for an interested, more knowledgeable Jewish group, this book would really add to the spiritual essence of the Passover experience. I would highly recommend it to a seder group who wants to "go deep"!!

Gave as a gift and they loved it. Arrived in good condtion and on time. The material added to their Passover experience.