In addition to extensive modification throughout, the 2nd Edition includes five
new chapters, each full of questions for discussion and other activities to
enliven
your Seders.
New
Chapters
A Dish for the Ages: The Seder Plate
Confused? • Experiment with Your Plate • A Taste of History
• Why Does This Plate
Differ from That One?
Moses in the Haggadah: The Human Role in Redemption
Where’s Moses? • “Not By an Angel . . .” •
Why Minimize Moses? • Fresh
Readings:The Haggadah and the Human Role in the Exodus • The Covenantal
Context
of Redemption • Righteous Women,Apple Trees and Charoset • Purim
in the Haggadah • In Every Generation •
Five Midrashic Voices on Redemption
Dayyenu: It Would Have Sufficed
First Songs:The Song at the Sea and Dayyenu • Roots?
• Why Fifteen Divine Favors? • Dayyenu as Microcosm
• Sinai Without Torah:Would It Have Sufficed? Passover
without a Seder: The Paschal Sacrifice
Passover in Egypt • In
Temple Times • The Passover Rite • Sources on
Sacrifice • Sacrifice in Our Lives Today
Two Seder Songs: Echad
Mi Yodea and Chad
Gadya
• Echad Mi Yodea: Mysterious
Origins • A Night of Numbers •
Counting What Matters • The
Ba’al Shem Tov • Chad Gadya:
Inspiration?
• Came the Commentators • Modern Voices
• The Haggadah’s Last Word:A World of Eternal Life
