Sources about and in the Seder/Haggadah
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Sources about and in the Seder/Haggadah

 

1. [a] Verses dealing with the Seder Night:

Exodus 12:8-11; 18; 43-48. Exodus 13:8; 14. Deuteronomy 6:20-23.

[b] Verses quoted in the Haggadah before the meal, excluding the Hallel:

                  Genesis 15:13, 47:4
                  Exodus 1:7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 22.
                         2:24; 3:9; 4:17; 8:15; 9:13.
                         12:12, 26, 27, 39.
                         13:8; 14; 14:13.
                  Numbers 9:11.
                  Deuteronomy 6:20, 23; 10:22; 16:3; 26:5-8.
                  Joshua 24:2.
                  Joel 3:3.
                  Ezekiel 16:6-7.
                  Psalms 78:49.
                  1 Chronicles 21:16.

2. Mishnah, Pesachim chapter 10:

        Mishnayot 1-3  Kiddush.
        Mishnayot 4-6  Relating the story of the Exodus.
        Mishnah 7      Grace after meals, and completion of Hallel.

3. Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of Hametz and Matzah, chapter 7:

"There is an obligation from the Torah to relate on the night of the fifteenth of Nissan the miracles and wonders that were performed for our ancestors in Egypt."

4. Sefer Hatoda'ah (by Eliahu Ki-Tov).

5. Mishnah Berurah (Commentary on the Shulkhan Arukh) 471-484.

6. Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh, para.119.

 

 

 

 


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