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The haggadah with a difference
Looking into the haggadah with a difference
Asufa is the name of the Israeli design collective that has published a new haggadah with remarkable artwork every year for the past decade.
The process each year involves assigning about 40 designers to produce their own two-page spread based on the traditional Hebrew text. (A bilingual English-Hebrew version was published in 2015.)
Some of the pages are playful—like one of a rabbinical discussion of plagues depicted as a wrestling program. Others are whimsical—like a grace after meals depicting John Lennon and Elvis Presley in heaven.
And a few of the illustrations are meant to be provocative—like the medieval-inspired gory drawings for a section that calls for the nations persecuting Israel to be punished.
David Zvi Kalman distributes the effort in North America, through the Philadelphia-based publishing house Print-O-Craft, which is named for the business that his grandfather once owned in Toronto.
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יברו אביקע יברו הירזע ןב רזעלא יברו עשוהי יברו רזעילא יברב השעמ דע הלילה ותוא לכ םירצמ תאיציב םירפסמ ויהו קרב ינבב ןיבוסמ ויהש ןופרט רמא .תירחש לש עמש תאירק ןמז עיגה וניתובר ,םהל ורמאו םהידימלת ואבש םירצמ תאיצי רמאתש יתיכז אלו הנש םיעבש ןבכ ינא ירה ,הירזע ןב רזעלא יבר םירצמ ץראמ ךתאצ םוי תא רוכזת ןעמל רמאנש ,אמוז ןב השרדש דע ,תולילב ךייח ימי ,םירמוא םימכחו ,תולילה ךייח ימי לכ ,םימיה ךייח ימי ,ךייח ימי לכ ,הזה םלועה ךייח ימי לכ ,הזה םלועה איבהל ךייח ימי לכ ;חישמה תומיל
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רורד יל ונאיצויו .םירצמב הערפל ונייה םידבע .היוטנ עורזבו הקזח דיב םשמ וניהולא יי תא אוה ךורב שודקה איצוה אל ולאו ינבו ונינבו ונא ירה .םירצממ וניתובא , םירצמב הערפל ונייה םידבעושמ ,ונינב ונלוכ ,םינובנ ונלוכ ,םימכח ונלוכ וליפאו הוצמ ,הרותה תא םיעדוי ונלוכ ,םינקז הברמה לכו ,םירצמ תאיציב רפסל ונילע חבושמ הז ירה םירצמ תאיציב רפסל
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Check out more pages of the Asufa Haggadah at printocraftpress.com The hagaddah will be available in Canada at East Toronto Judaica east-toronto-judaica.company.site
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