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The Passover Haggadah contains the text recited at the ritual meal—the seder—held on Passover eve in Jewish homes and communal gatherings ranging from synagogues to the Israeli kibbutzim. It is probably the most widely used text of the Jewish people, and it has exerted a noticeable influence on Jewish life and thought through the ages. Since the emergence of book printing, the Haggadah has appeared in several thousand editions, and it is represented in manuscripts from the ninth century and on. …