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Title: The Holistic Haggadah: How Will You Be Different This Passover Night by Michael L. Kagan, Sandra Pond, Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi ISBN: 9-6571084-9-7 Publisher: Urim Publications Pub. Date: March, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A uniquely insightful and moving exploration
Comment: An essentially traditional presentation of the Haggadah enhanced with original, insightful commentary by Michael L. Kagan (a self-described "ortho-practicing but unorthodox Jew"), The Holistic Haggadah: How Will You Be Different This Passover Night? informatively presents contemporary readers with the Haggadah of the Passover Seder. A uniquely insightful and moving exploration of a Judaic religious tradition that explores the depths of meaning and revelation beyond the surface of Biblical parables, The Holistic Haggadah is written and presented with profound reverence and confidently recommended for personal, theological, and academic Judaic Studies reference collections and supplemental reading lists.
Rating: 5
Summary: A source of Deepening meanings for your Seder and Nisan
Comment: How many Haggadah's that you know of mention the film, The Matrix ? Urim publications has created another winning haggadah. The holistic Haggadah includes readings and insights that will make your seder better and more interesting. Technically, this haggadah moves right to left with a full Hebrew text in a very nice, voweled font, with English translations, but no transliterations. It has at least twice as much explanations as your average haggadah. It also includes translations of Hallel and Blessings over the Meal (the source of food and nourishment) by that holistic big-daddy, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. The theme of this haggadah is "How will YOU be different this Passover night?" More than a 12 step program approach to Passover, it reinforces Pesach as the Spring holiday that regenerates yourself for the coming planting season, rids your home of leavened bread, and rids you of that yeasty, puffy, poori-like inflated ego.
Each section of the seder contains commentaries under the headings of "BEING" and "DEEPENING." Some holistic viewpoints that can be found in these sections of this haggadah are: The period between Purim and Passover as period akin to the month of Elul; The search for hametz as a search for one's inner spoilage, namely one's slavery to materialism, and fears of loss, success, and embarrassment; The burning of the hametz as a letting go of attachments; The candle lighting as the introduction of illumination and knowledge; The Seder as an ordering out of the chaotic hiddeness of Adar's Purim; and a silent Urhatz (washing without a prayer) as a sign of enslavement. Other insights are the salty Karpas as a form of connection to your inner, narrow, Mitzraim; Yahatz as the broken self; the Four Questions as the call to hear the inner child; the treasures of Egypt as a choice to debasment or being true to oneself; and the Afikoman as... well you'll have to read the book for that precious tidbit. The traditional four sons are rendered as four children; in this case they are female. The RaSha child is here "alienated" and not wicked (did you realize that the Haham, Rasha, Tam children spell the acronym of HeRut [freedom]?) There are so many ideas upon which your seder participants can expound. And the ones above only scratch the surface. This is highly recommended.
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Title: Creating Lively Passover Seders: An Interactive Sourcebook of Tales, Texts & Activities by David Arnow ISBN: 1580231845 Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub Pub. Date: February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: A Guide to the Zohar by Arthur Green ISBN: 0804749086 Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr (T) Pub. Date: January, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: My People's Prayer Book, Vol. 7: Traditional Prayers, Modern Commentaries---Shabbat at Home by Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman, Elliot N. Dorff, Marc Brettler ISBN: 1879045850 Publisher: Jewish Lights Pub Pub. Date: December, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: A Different Night, The Family Participation Haggadah by David Dishon, Noam Zion ISBN: 0966474007 Publisher: Shalom Hartman Institute Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Lord Is My Shepherd : Healing Wisdom of the Twenty-third Psalm by HAROLD S. KUSHNER ISBN: 1400040566 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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