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On Wings of Freedom (Leaders Edition)

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The Hillel college student Haggadah. Yellow cover. Paperback. Right to Left format. About 150 pages. A Haggadah filled with directions, Hebrew, English, explanations, reflections, and English transliterations. Heavy on the English. For example, Ha Lachma Anya is just one Hebrew paragraph followed by several English readings. The Four Questions are titled The Four Puzzlements. They are in Hebrew, English and transliteration and bookended with two English reflections. I found it very easy to use. Rather than presenting the text as-is in a linear fashion, the editor has broken up the paragraphs to make them more understandable. For example, the portions after Avadim Ha-yino and before the ten plagues are subtitled as "we were slaves...", "the rabbis of bnei brak", "the four praises...", "the four children", "a midrashic dialogue: how the Torah text shapes the Haggadah text", "our degradation: not slavery but idolatry", "god's promise to abraham", reflections on the wandering aramean, and each of the four verses of Deuteronomy 26. These provide a better understanding of the teachings than the standard haggadah. The ten plagues are followed by a reading on the modern plagues in our society. The haggadah closes with a Counting of the Omer and Hallel that is rich with explanations, and traditional songs, such as Ki Lo Naeh, Adir Hu, Echad Mi Yodea, Chad Gadya, Lo Yissa Goy, If I had a Hammer, Follow the Drinking Gourd, Down By The Riverside, and We Shall Overcome, and explanations as to their allegorical natures