Babylonian Haggadah [antikvár]

We are honored to present you with another Haggadah from the unique series of Passover Haggadahs dedicated to Jewish communities around the world, especially prepared and printed for BHI (Bank Hapoalim International). This year, the 60th Anniversary of Israel's independence, the Haggadah is dedicated to the establishment of the Jewish community of Babylonia (Iraq) after the first exile from the Land of Israel (Jehoiachin Exile, 597 BCE). Babylonian Jewry is central among Jewish communities: A community in which a cultural, religious, economic, and national center unprecedented in the Jewish world, evolved and whose cultural life culminated with the Babylonian Talmud (ca. 500 CE). The Jews of Babylonia, expanded with new communities throughout the world, integrating into the local cultures and economies, while preserving their identity, and fostering their aspiration to fulfill the dream of returning to their land, as indicated in Psalms (137:1): "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." Chag Sameach