maggid

The central part of the book, then, is the maggid or retelling.

The Passover Haggadah 2010

The central part of the book, then, is the maggid or retelling.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

Instead of reciting the biblical narrative, though, the maggid is principally built up from Mishnaic texts.

The Passover Haggadah 2010

Instead of reciting the biblical narrative, though, the maggid is principally built up from Mishnaic texts.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

Her father was a maggid (preacher) and religious studies teacher employed by the Jewish community.

Baum Gruppe: Jewish Women. 2009

Her father was a maggid [itinerant preacher], and her mother was a merchant.

Bertha Wiernik. 2009

In the late 1670s and early 1680s, Ber became deeply involved in the Sabbatean movement as a maggid in the circle of Abraham ben Michael Rovigo (c. 1650 – 1713) in Modena.

Bella Perlhefter. 2009

I refer him to one of the oldest Jewish texts about the Exodus after the book of Exodus itself: Psalm 114, which concludes the “maggid” section of the haggadah.

Even if all of us were wise | Jewschool 2007

I am in a friendly disagreement with some in my yeshivah including my maggid shiur whether Judaism rejoices over the destruction of its enemies.

Another One Bites The Dust | Jewschool 2004

It bears not a single headstone, just a house-like memorial for the late-19th-century maggid, or preacher, Mordechai of Chernobyl, my paternal ancestor five generations back.

NYT > Home Page By MORDECHAI I. TWERSKY 2011