variants
or less commonly Haggada
plural Haggadahs or Haggadot also Haggadas or Haggadoth
hə-ˈgä-ˌdōt 
hä-,
-ˈgȯ-,
-ˌdōth
1
: aggadah
2
: the book of readings for the seder service
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The holiday is celebrated with a Seder, a ritual feast including symbolic foods and the reading of the Haggadah.
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Chris Sims, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The holiday is celebrated with Seders, ritual meals including symbolic foods and readings from the Haggadah.
—Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Several days later using this Haggadah, the father was able to raise people’s spirits by conducting a Seder for many inmates.
—Marc Sack, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The Haggadah Collection is on display at Santa Ana’s Temple Beth Sholom daily for temple members until Sunday, April 27.
—Allyson Vergara, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
The service uses Haggadah prayer books and includes drinking four cups of wine.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 11 Apr. 2025
The seder will be self-led—guests are invited to bring their own Haggadah.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The Haggadah The Haggadah is the Passover book that everyone follows along with at dinner as the leader recites it.
—Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025
This was an allusion to a famous 14th-century Haggadah, the Birds’ Head Haggadah, which sidestepped the medieval Jewish aversion to representing the human face by replacing Jews’ heads with those of birds.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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Chris Sims, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
The holiday is celebrated with Seders, ritual meals including symbolic foods and readings from the Haggadah.
—Chris Sims, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025
Several days later using this Haggadah, the father was able to raise people’s spirits by conducting a Seder for many inmates.
—Marc Sack, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
The Haggadah Collection is on display at Santa Ana’s Temple Beth Sholom daily for temple members until Sunday, April 27.
—Allyson Vergara, Oc Register, 20 Apr. 2025
The service uses Haggadah prayer books and includes drinking four cups of wine.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 11 Apr. 2025
The seder will be self-led—guests are invited to bring their own Haggadah.
—Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
The Haggadah The Haggadah is the Passover book that everyone follows along with at dinner as the leader recites it.
—Holly Rizzuto Palker, Parents, 27 Mar. 2025
This was an allusion to a famous 14th-century Haggadah, the Birds’ Head Haggadah, which sidestepped the medieval Jewish aversion to representing the human face by replacing Jews’ heads with those of birds.
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 5 Oct. 2024
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“Haggadah.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Haggadah. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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