Att. Category: The Darmstadt haggadah

Israel ben Meïr of Heidelberg wrote the Darmstadt Haggadah.
It may have been a gift from a father to his daughter, or from a husband to his wife.
we don't know. In fact, the characters depicted have no connection with the exit from
of Egypt. We see women seated next to masters often older than themselves.
than themselves. This suggests that the recipient was a scholar who knew how to read Hebrew, which
which was exceptional at the time.
Women are rarely mentioned in the Haggadot of Pesach, and in fact, at the time of the Mishnah, women were not mentioned at all.
at the time of the Mishnah, in the 2nd
century, only men took part in the
Seder meal.
At the bottom of the page, nine men are seated at the Seder table. These are the
five Sages of Bnei Brak and the four children mentioned in the Haggadah: the wise man, the simple man
the simple one, the rebellious one and the one who doesn't know how to ask questions. Only the wise man has his hand
on a book.