Available now – just in time for Passover – it’s The Haggadah In Haiku. All the steps in 17 syllables each.

It’s all here … the Four Questions, the Ten Plagues, the Four Children, all Four Cups of Wine

This night differs, why?
Matzah, maror, dip, recline
Keep asking questions.

Order yours today from my Blurb “bookstore”. Two versions available – click on the titles below to preview or purchase:

Regular Edition – $8* each

Deluxe Edition (20% larger page, full color graphics) – $16* each

*plus delivery

Blurb says that “most Blurb books arrive within 7 to 10 business days.” My initial order arrived in 6 business days, but you should order by March 12 to make sure your order arrives in time for the first seder (Monday night, March 29).

Please share this with anyone you think would be interested in a fun and different seder this year.

Thanks.

The Haggadah In Haiku is a project of The Torah In Haiku

But the work must stop
Each week to observe Shabbat
It’s G-d’s day of rest

Created by The Torah In Haiku just in time for Pesach, The Haggadah In Haiku includes all the steps of the seder condensed into seventeen syllables each.

From the Introduction:

Pesach haggadah
But written in haiku form
It’s an obsession

Torah haiku blog
Something for each week’s portion
And now, the seder

All the steps are here
From Kadesh right to Nirtzah
Just a bit compressed

Made for quick seders
It will take you half an hour
If you don’t dawdle

But dawdle you should
Ask questions, give some answers
Have a fun seder

Available now via blurb.com. Orders placed by March 12 should arrive in time for the first seder on the night of March 29th.

The regular edition, priced at $8 each, is affordable enough to buy one for each seder participant. A larger format “Deluxe Edition” with full color graphics is just $16.

Click on the links below to preview the books and buy your own copies today.

I hope you and your family enjoy this unique way to experience the Passover seder.

Haiku Haggadah

By Ed Nickow

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Haiku Haggadah

By Ed Nickow

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What the priests once wore
Are now put on Torah scrolls
Robes, breastplates, turbans

G-d tells us to make
A menorah of pure gold
With seven branches

Not for Chanukah
But for the tabernacle
As G-d instructed

Tough rules for children
Hurting or cursing parents
Is punished by death

That’s not done today
Some won’t even hit their kids
When they misbehave

Andy Warhol's portrait of Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Jethro tells Moses
You can’t be the only judge
It’s too exhausting

Delegate the work
Appoint judges for thousands,
Hundreds, fifties, tens

And Moses did this.
The first time a Jewish man
Took in-laws’ advice?

So then, on Shabbat
Even in the wilderness
It’s a day of rest

The first “mezuzah”
Some blood from the sacrifice
To mark our doorposts

This was so that G-d
Would pass over our houses
When the tenth plague came

Moses: I’m nervous
G-d: Don’t worry about it
Aaron will be there

You’ll be like a god
To the Pharaoh of Egypt
Aaron, your prophet