The Israel Passover Haggadah

Menachem M. Kasher

1948

Introduction

To Section I, which deals with the Haggadah itself, I have added six other sections.

Section II, entitled “Moses, our Teacher,” is a collation of midrashim, which discuss his attributes, his ways with the people, and his general character, from his youth until the Exodus.

Section III, “The Beginning of Redemption,” presents the views…

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Creator Bio

Menachem M. Kasher

1895–1983

Talmudic scholar Menachem M. Kasher was born into a rabbinic family in Warsaw. He was ordained in 1915 and went to Palestine in 1925 as an emissary of the Gerer rebbe, Abraham Mordecai Alter, under whose direction he founded and directed Yeshiva Sefat Emet in Jerusalem. Kasher’s Torah shelemah, begun in 1927 and completed in 1981, is a forty-volume encyclopedia of the Talmud and Midrash for which he was awarded the Israel Prize in 1962. The introduction to the excerpt below was written by his son-in-law and translator, Aaron Greenbaum.

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