Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception(blogs.bl.uk)
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Pouring Wine on Haggadot: A Passover Exception
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The real pity of it is that given the rate of catastrophic spills, as opposed to character adding stains, someday there won’t be any more of the one true haggadah—-the Maxwell House version.
Jokes aside, The Maxwell House Haggadah is one of the oldest examples of free ad-supported content decimating the market for quality content while expanding access. Everyone had MH's free Hagaddah, so most people never bothered to seek out an alternative that better suits their spiritual values, and probably turned off a segment of a generation of people from being interested in Passover and Judaism, but people who weren't going to pay ever still got something to sustain their Jewish practice. All this beyond the fundamental tackiness of a major religious artifact having corporate branding.
I was playing the original comments for laughs, but the MH haggadah is want I want out of a haggadah and am I fairly sad that it or something nearly identical doesn't exist anymore.
I don't want huge swaths cut out; I like the archaic English (the Hebrew is archaic); I don't want little asides about how the story of the exodus rings true today because it's just like the Jews stuck behind the iron curtain or apartheid South Africa or oppressed racial minorities in the US.
I just want more or less the same haggadah that my ancestors used with a translation so I can follow along in a language I understand. If we aren't getting a lot of value out of a discussion of how and an extra comma means one hundred plagues at the red sea, we can choose to skip that part ourselves.
I don't want huge swaths cut out; I like the archaic English (the Hebrew is archaic); I don't want little asides about how the story of the exodus rings true today because it's just like the Jews stuck behind the iron curtain or apartheid South Africa or oppressed racial minorities in the US.
I just want more or less the same haggadah that my ancestors used with a translation so I can follow along in a language I understand. If we aren't getting a lot of value out of a discussion of how and an extra comma means one hundred plagues at the red sea, we can choose to skip that part ourselves.
On all other nights we drink Folgers, tonight Maxwell House.
really? The haggadah industry is huge. Every year friends of mine are posting on facebook what new haggadot with interesting commentary they got.
Haroset, being made
from wine, definitely contributes to the stains. YMMV.
This is the primary culprit in my experience and is what is responsible for the small, pea sized stains as it never seems to want to stay together precisely as you're transporting it to your plate.