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Passover Haggadah

    Handwritten on parchment with special rare
                illustrations from 5531

    An Amsterdam-style Haggadah written by Netanel Bar           to Yehudit, who saved all Israel by cutting of the head of
    Aharon, deputy Cohen, and decorated with illustrations       the man who would enslave them, and the second is of
    printed in the Amsterdam Haggadah from 1695( 5455),          a slave holding the head. I understand that the reason
    except for an illustration next to the section about rabbis  for changing the picture is in view of what I was told at
    sitting in Bnei Brak. The illustration in the Amsterdam      the Israel Museum, which possesses an indication that
    Haggadah depicts the Joseph’s brothers sitting for           this Haggadah was written for women, because there is
    the afternoon meal with him, which originates in the         texts within the pictures.
    Christian Bible. This Haggadah replaces that illustration
    with an illustration of five wise men. The picture on the    I understand from this that the Haggadah was apparently
    cover page, which was changed from Moshe and Aharon          written for a woman named Yehudit.

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