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JPS Commentary on the Haggadah: Historical Introduction, Translation, and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Passover haggadah enjoys an unrivaled place in Jewish culture, both religious and secular. And of all the classic Jewish books, the Haggadah is the one most “alive” today. Jews continue to rewrite, revise, and add to its text, recasting it so that it remains relevant to their lives. In this volume in the JPS Commentary collection, Joseph Tabory, one of the world’s leading authorities on the...

One of the most interesting observations based on this text is the interconnection between wine and texts. Here we have the evening organized around four cups of wine, and each cup of wine has a text attached to it. The texts of the first and third cup are ordinary texts, used on other days of the year. The text of the first cup, known as Kiddush, is customarily recited at the beginning of the meal on the eve of every Shabbat and every festival, whereas the text of the third cup, the grace after
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