Haggadah Shel Pesach - First Israeli Army Haggadah Jerusalem Ha-Sherut ha-Dati, IDF 1949

Original wrappers 20cm. .A very good copy. This was the first Passover Haggadah published by the Israeli Defense Forces. "All subsequent Pesach Haggadot published by the army were more elaborate, but since this Haggdah was published right after the 1948 War of Independence the army used plates of another Hagadah published in the previous year by Lewin-Epstein. The difference between the first IDF edition and the edition it was copied from is the letter to the soldiers from the first Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Shlomo Gorontschik, later to become the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Shlomo Goren published in the inside front cover. He writes in Hebrew 'After 2000 years of physical and spiritual slavery, we have merited to celebrate the festival of freedom.......and Just as we left Egypt and saw miracles so too we saw in the War of Independence that we raged in our land. Raise high the flag of freedom that you have acquired by your hands in great bravery and self sacrifice as we envision the complete Redemption and celebrate the Festival of Passover .... ' " See Shalom Freedman - Rabbi Shlomo Goren: Torah Sage and General (page 36)

Yudlov #4122

£395.00 [Ref: 14597]