From the Mishnah to Maggid: Case Studies in the Development of the Haggadah (Part 1)
This week's topic: Are You a Karaite If You Leave Out Avadim Hayinu?
In the 800s, Rav Natronai Gaon in Babylonia polemicized against what he called a Karaite version of the Haggadah that was missing the paragraph of Avadim Hayinu andother sections. But discoveries in the Cairo Genizah upended everything we thought we knew about this so-called Karaite Haggadah and give us fresh insight into how the Haggadah as we know it came together in Geonic times.
Please note that this class is taking place at 1:00 PM Eastern time, 7:00 PM Israel time due to the time change
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Yosef Lindell
Yosef Lindell is a lawyer, writer, and teacher living in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has a JD from NYU School of Law and an MA in Jewish history from Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School. For the last four years, he was an editor of the Lehrhaus, an online forum for Jewish thought, and now serves on its consulting editorial board. Yosef’s writing spans several genres, including science fiction, but primarily focuses on Jewish history and thought. He has published more than…