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IJA 2921

Handwritten Passover Hagadah

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This is a handwritten book, likely written by a youth (likely Baghdadi) in 5603 (1902 or 1903). In the front, it is inscribed with the Hebrew date, and the assumed scribe: Ha-Tseir Katsuri ben Shaul Yaʻaḳov Yehudah Yaʻaḳov. Inside is the entire Passover Hagadah with small illustrations and decorations, as well as other prayers and poems from other parts of Jewish liturgy: Lekhah Dodi and Yedid Nefesh from Sabbath Evening prayers. The text of the Hagadah includes a paragraph-by-paragraph translation of the Hebrew text to Judeo-Arabic.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2921
Item Number
12171
Date
Approx. January 1, 1901 to December 31, 1910
Languages
Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic
Keywords
Jewish Holidays, Illustrations, Judeo-Arabic, Passover, Handwritten, Sidur, Liturgy, Hagadah
Height
13.60 cm
Width
10.70 cm

AI English Translation, Pages 26-50

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our voice, and He saw our affliction and our toil and our oppression ::
And we cried out to God, the God of our fathers, and He heard
God to our voice and He saw to our misery
And we cried out
and our toil and our oppression ::
As it is said: And it was
And we cried out
in those many days and the king of Egypt died
and the children of Israel groaned from the labor and they cried out and their plea rose to God from the labor
and we cried out to God, the God of our fathers, and God heard
to our voice ::
And we cried out
to the Lord, God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice
as it is said: And it was in those many days ::

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The Lord [heard] our voice as it is said, and God heard
their groaning and God remembered
and He heard
His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob :
God our voice as He said and God heard
God to their groaning and God remembered
and He heard
His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob
And our toil, this is the separation of the way of the land as it is said
and He saw
And God saw the children of Israel and God knew
And God looked upon the children of Israel and God knew
And our labor, this [is] the isolation, the way of the land as He said
and He looked
and He saw :
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Our toil, this refers to the sons, as it is said:
And
every son that is born you shall cast into the river.
Perhaps [the decree] of Pharaoh [was like] Nimrod, and every son etc. :
And he saw
our distress, this refers to the oppression, as it is said: And I also
have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress
them :
From here it is precise that for 'oppression' they say 'severe oppression' :
And
our oppression, this refers to the pressure, as it is said:
And I also have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them :
And He brought us out
And God brought us out from Egypt, not
by the hand of an angel, and not by the hand of a seraph, and not by the hand of a messenger,
but the Holy One, Blessed be He, in His glory and by Himself :
As it is said

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And we translated: with a strong hand and an outstretched
arm and with wisdom and with strength
and with terrors:
And the Lord brought us out of Egypt, not by an angel and not by
a seraph and not by a messenger, but the Holy One, Blessed
be He, in His glory and by Himself, as it is said: And I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and I will strike
every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man to beast, and against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments, I am the Lord:
And we translated: he went out from Egypt with a strong hand, and not an angel
to bring forth, and not a seraph to destroy, and not a messenger, but
His essence and His glory, He in His soul and His being, as He said: And I will pass
for

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The explanation of 'be strong and courageous' is like a great voice, and its meaning is with the mouth, meaning a teller of everything said here
and here regarding Pharaoh, and his name shall be magnified etc. its meaning is a loud blast as written 'the Lord' ::
In the land of Egypt, I and not an angel, and I will smite
And I will pass through
Every firstborn, I and not a seraph, and against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments, I and not the messenger, I am the Lord, I am He and no other ::
The explanation: In the land of Egypt, I and not an angel, and I will kill
And I will pass through
Every firstborn, I and not a seraph, and against all the idols
of Egypt, I will perform judgments, I am God and a messenger, I am God, I am He and no other
Our Rabbis say: 'With a mighty hand' two, and 'with an outstretched arm'
Blessed be He, for the plagues that the Holy One brought
They said
Blessed be He, upon the Egyptians in Egypt, ten plagues, and these
are they

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The soul of every living being shall bless Your name, O Lord our God, and the spirit of all flesh
shall glorify and exalt Your remembrance, our King, continually; from eternity to eternity
You are God, and besides You we have no King, Redeemer, Savior, Liberator, Deliverer,
Provider, and Commiserator in all times of trouble and distress; we have no King but You.
God of the first and of the last, God of all creatures, Lord of all generations,
Who is extolled with many praises, Who guides His world with loving-kindness and His creatures with mercy.
The Lord neither slumbers nor sleeps; He awakens the sleepers and rouses the slumberers,
He makes the mute speak, sets the bound free, supports the falling, and raises those bowed down;
to You alone we give thanks.
Were
our mouths full of song as the sea is full of water,
and our tongues with jubilation like the roar of its waves, and our lips with praise
like the breadth of the firmament, and our eyes shining like the sun and the moon,
and our hands spread out like the eagles of the sky, and our feet swift like hinds,
we would still not

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My help comes from Him, may His name be blessed, great and exalted above all blessing and praise
They stood before Him, may He be blessed, 'A New Song' 3 times, and afterwards 'Therefore we hope in You' etc. and 'King
God exalted' etc. and 'His kingdom' etc. until 'and His kingdom rules over all' and 'The Lord shall be King
over all the earth' etc. until 'His name is One' and it is written in Your Torah 'Hear O Israel, the Lord our God
the Lord is One' and 'And it shall be when He brings you' etc. and 'And it shall be if you diligently obey' etc. and 'And the Lord said
to Moses, God shall come' etc. Be strong and let us be strengthened. Sign: Remez, Atnach, Zarka, Tevir
Sign: the taste of this chapter, Meteg, Gershayim, Azla, Tevir:
This book was written with a lead pen by the young
H' K'Y'F' K'S'W'R'Y' son of Saul Jacob Judah
By the hand of
The youngest in the world, in the morning and evening my heart has already dawned ⟦line⟧
Happy is the son who does not ⟦month⟧ 3 and his memory is like the ⟦H⟧iddekel
By the hand of
And they were finished

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Great powers ⟦and⟧ protected in your name, everything sweet, everything bean, everything leavened
every male, every sense, every human, every cold, every heat, and every ⟦faintness⟧ :
And with an outstretched arm
this is the sword, as it is said
drawn in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem :
And in the arm
the meaning of it is this sword as it is written
and his sword was drawn in his hand, extended over Jerusalem
what he sees :
And with great terror
this is the revelation of the Shekhinah, as it is said
Or has God ventured to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of
another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm,
and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes
And with power

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And in the sign
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May His name be blessed forever and for all eternity
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Your people, and strengthen us
And in that
May it be Your will, O Lord our God
and God of our fathers, that there may ascend, come, and reach,
be seen, accepted, heard, visited, and remembered
And in the verses
our remembrance and our consideration, and the remembrance of our fathers,
and the remembrance of Jerusalem Your holy city, and the remembrance of
all Your people the House of Israel before You, for deliverance, for good,
for grace

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With a great awe, this is the revelation of the Shekhinah, as it is said: "Or has God tried," etc.

And with wonders
this is the blood, as it is said: "And I will set
wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire
and columns of smoke."
And with an outstretched
arm, this is the sword, as it is said: "And his sword
drawn in his hand, outstretched over Jerusalem."
Another
interpretation: "With a strong hand" counts as two, "and with an outstretched arm"
counts as two, "and with great awe" counts as two, "and with signs"
counts as two, "and with wonders" counts as two.
These

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Words to you, O group of those present, and to everyone who is
absent from those present: we tell you about what
happened and occurred in the time of our fathers and our past grandfathers:
What happened to them in the land of Egypt regarding the slavery
in which they were enslaved under Pharaoh the wicked, and how
the Lord of the Worlds, Holy is He, heard their prayer and their cry
and sent Moses and everyone who was with him:
These are the ten plagues that descended upon Egypt,
and each one of them was more severe than the other, and how
each one of them distinguished between Israel and between Egypt, as it is
written in the Holy Torah:
And in

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Rabbi Eleazar ben Azariah said: Behold, I am like a man of seventy years, and I did not
merit:
Rabbi Eleazar said: I am like a man of seventy years and I did not
merit:
Yossi the Galilean says: From where do you say that
the Egyptians were struck in Egypt with ten plagues, and at the sea they were struck
with fifty plagues? In Egypt, what does it say? "Then the magicians said
unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God." And at the sea, what does it say? "And Israel saw
the great hand which the Lord laid upon the Egyptians, and the people feared the Lord,
and they believed in the Lord, and in His servant Moses."
Rabbi Yossi the Galilean says: From where do you say ⟦...⟧
they

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We descended to the Egyptians with ten good tidings and we went out from there, as His name is blessed
a double blessing and this death. This is said: the gardeners who went out before us in the
former time shall stand. At this, it says: and to each one of them, whose right hand shall plead
so and so, and likewise the congregation says with him, each one of them
How many abundant favors has the Omnipresent bestowed upon us!
How many
If He had brought us out from Egypt, and had not executed
judgments upon them, it would have sufficed us. If He had executed judgments upon them, and had not executed
man
Call to the elder, he says ten such things we descended
The goodness began, they saw such
Rabbi
A belt girded on his back and skin and a basket
and a staff in his hand and their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothes
upon their shoulders
By God

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on Passover except he ate the Passover offering which was eaten during the time when the
Holy Temple stood. For what reason? For the reason that the Holy One, Blessed be He, passed
over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt, as it is said: "And you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover,
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped."
Rabbi Mattia ben Heresh says: Anyone who has not said these three
things on Passover has not fulfilled his obligation, and these are they: Passover,
Matzah, and Maror. The Passover offering that our ancestors used to eat when the Holy
Temple stood, for what reason? For the reason that the Holy One, Blessed be
He, passed over the houses of our ancestors in Egypt, as it is said: "And you shall say, It is the sacrifice
of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped."
Rabbi

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Rabbi Shimon says: Three who have eaten
at a table and did not say over it words of Torah, it is as if
they ate from sacrifices to the dead, as it is said: 'For all tables
are full of vomit and filth, without the Omnipresent.' But three who have eaten
at one table and said over it words of Torah, it is as if
they ate from the table of the Omnipresent, Blessed be He, as it is said:
'And he spoke to me: This is the table which is before the Lord.'
Rabbi Akiva says: Anyone who does not visit
the sick, it is as if he spills blood, as it is said:
⟦...⟧ and also the statute he shall trample
on the day of his ⟦...⟧ remember always and his seed shall be cleansed and he shall prolong days:
2

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Please reveal Yourself and spread, my Beloved, the shelter of Your peace over me
The earth will shine from Your glory, we will rejoice and be glad in You
Hasten, Beloved, for the time has come, and favor us as in days of old
: Blessed :
With what may we light and with what may we not light
We may not light with cedar-bast, nor with uncombed flax
nor with raw silk, nor with willow-fiber wick, nor with a wick of
the desert; nor with the green scum that is upon the water
nor with pitch, nor with wax, nor with castor
oil, nor with oil that must be burned, nor with fat from a sheep's tail
nor with tallow; Nahum the Mede says
With
what
may
we
light

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With God's help :
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D
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Melody
Keep and remember in a single utterance
The unique God made us hear
The Lord is One and His name is One
For renown, for glory, and for praise
Towards
Towards Shabbat, come let us go
For she is the source of blessing
From the beginning, from antiquity, she was honored
Last in deed, first in thought
Sanctuary
Sanctuary of the King, city of royalty
Arise and leave from the midst of the upheaval
Too long have you dwelled in the valley of weeping
And He will have compassion upon you

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Merciful One
Merciful One who answered Abraham our father on Mount Moriah, answer us
Merciful One who answered Isaac his son when he was bound on the altar, answer us
Merciful One who answered Jacob in Bethel, answer us Merciful One who answered Joseph
in the prison house, answer us Merciful One who answered our ancestors at the Red Sea
answer us Merciful One who answered Moses at Horeb, answer us Merciful One who answered Aaron
with the censer, answer us Merciful One who answered Phinehas when he rose from the congregation
answer us Merciful One who answered Joshua in Gilgal, answer us Merciful One who answered Eli
the priest in Gilgal, answer us Merciful One who answered Samuel in Mizpah, answer us
My God, answer us, who answered Solomon in Gibeon
Merciful One
Answer us

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Calculation of the examination that our master performed in the blood sacrifice, thus God has acted
Even in this world of ours, the Herb of God, blood between us and Isaac Abraham, in the name of
God, who turns away from the word of God, who was a priest in the holy Sanctuary
In Eber and Shem, who understood in the strength of the holy Sanctuary, regarding that which we worship
And this says our world even to the High God, who is threefold in the name of God
Who understood in the holiness of the holy Sanctuary, who sets the world apart, which
is that God who understood in that which sets the holy world apart in the name of God, who
welcomed the creation of the Sanctuary in the name of God upon the High God of the Sanctuary in the name of
God:
A
Mention of the accounts of the Sanctuary which
God H' Rayz
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Chosen as proper, His troops will say to Him
To You and to You: To You because it is Yours:
To You even to You: To the LORD is the kingdom
For it is becoming to Him: For it is fitting for Him:
Becoming
Distinguished in kingship, glorious as proper
His veterans will say to Him: To You and to You
To You because it is Yours: To You even to You to the LORD
The kingdom for it is becoming to Him: For it is
Fitting
Fitting:
to Him
Pure in kingship, powerful as proper
His princes will say to Him: To You and to You
To You because it is Yours: To You even to You to the LORD
Becoming
The kingdom
For it is becoming to Him

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He answered in His glory and by Himself: it would have been enough for us
if
As it is written: "And I will pass through the land of Egypt
on this night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt"
not
Translation:
As it is written: "And I will pass through the land of Egypt
on this night, and I will kill every firstborn
it would have been enough for us
if
from man to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt
I will execute judgments; I am the Lord." "And I will pass through the land of Egypt"
not
I, and not an angel
"And I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt"
if
Translation
from man to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt
it would have been enough for us
not

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And our toil :: as it is said "
these are the sons as it is said
Every son that is born into the river
you shall cast him and every daughter you shall save alive :: Another explanation
And our toil these are the taxes
as it is said and they set over them task-
masters to afflict them with their burdens
And our oppression ::
this is the pressure as it is said
and I have also seen the oppression
which the Egyptians oppress them
E
L
A
L
A
And they built

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Melody: I will exalt You
⟦...⟧
Therefore we shall sing to the name of our God and our King
For He is our shield .. and a refuge for us
The honored and awesome one shall send us a Messiah
Elijah the Prophet ..
Speedily he shall come to us .. with Messiah son of David
To the name of our God we shall bless and praise
Therefore we shall hope for Him for He will save us
And He also will redeem us from all our troubles
And when will He come and gather our outcasts
To our holy city Jerusalem may it be rebuilt and established soon
The Holy Temple shall be built speedily .. in our days Amen
And we shall perform before Him sacrifices as is our duty .. as written in Your Torah
And eternal joy upon their heads .. bring us back O Lord to You and we shall return
Renew our days as of old .. Blessed is He who keeps His promise to Israel
Blessed be He
To
God
To
Eternity
Binder

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Wrapped in them " he takes his money properly and says this " in memory of the Temple
like Hillel the Elder " and whoever does not eat the matzah and maror together is in sin and has not fulfilled
the obligation of the commandment from the Torah " and so said our Rabbi, peace be upon him, he has not fulfilled
and eats it on the left side "
Upon
washing of hands and shall bless over the washing of hands
And he shall drink the third cup and bless " Creator of the fruit of
the vine " and he shall take celery and dip in vinegar " and he shall not bless Creator of the fruit of the ground " he says like this
taste of fish or taste of meat and he shall eat the size of an olive or an egg from the egg
specifically not salted in water " and he shall not pair the matzah with each one of them
and he shall eat the size of an olive " he shall eat everything while reclining on the left side without a blessing
and he shall not bless over the washing of hands because he washed his hands from the beginning and his hands are pure
for the decree