Why’s this haggadah
Diff’rent from all the others?
‘Cause it’s in haiku!

Available now – just in time for Passover – it’s The Haggadah In Haiku. All the steps in 17 syllables each.

It’s all here … the Four Questions, the Ten Plagues, the Four Children, all Four Cups of Wine

This night differs, why?
Matzah, maror, dip, recline
Keep asking questions.

Order yours today from my Blurb “bookstore”. Two versions available – click on the titles below to preview or purchase:

Regular Edition – $8* each

Deluxe Edition (20% larger page, full color graphics) – $16* each

*plus delivery

Blurb says that “most Blurb books arrive within 7 to 10 business days.” My initial order arrived in 6 business days, but you should order by March 12 to make sure your order arrives in time for the first seder (Monday night, March 29).

Please share this with anyone you think would be interested in a fun and different seder this year.

Thanks.

The Haggadah In Haiku is a project of The Torah In Haiku

G-d does some hiring
Betzalel, Oholiab
The Mishkan builders

But the work must stop
Each week to observe Shabbat
It’s G-d’s day of rest

Ready for Pesach?
The Haggadah In Haiku
A unique seder

Created by The Torah In Haiku just in time for Pesach, The Haggadah In Haiku includes all the steps of the seder condensed into seventeen syllables each.

From the Introduction:

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T’tzaveh

What the priests once wore
Are now put on Torah scrolls
Robes, breastplates, turbans

G-d tells us to make
A menorah of pure gold
With seven branches


Not for Chanukah
But for the tabernacle
As G-d instructed

Mishpatim

Tough rules for children
Hurting or cursing parents
Is punished by death


That’s not done today
Some won’t even hit their kids
When they misbehave

Andy Warhol's portrait of Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Jethro tells Moses
You can’t be the only judge
It’s too exhausting

Delegate the work
Appoint judges for thousands,
Hundreds, fifties, tens

And Moses did this.
The first time a Jewish man
Took in-laws’ advice?

Beshalach

Manna from heaven
To feed us in the desert
The sixth day – double

So then, on Shabbat
Even in the wilderness
It’s a day of rest

Bo

The first “mezuzah”
Some blood from the sacrifice
To mark our doorposts

This was so that G-d
Would pass over our houses
When the tenth plague came

Va-eira

Moses: I’m nervous
G-d: Don’t worry about it
Aaron will be there


You’ll be like a god
To the Pharaoh of Egypt
Aaron, your prophet

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