Haggadah for the Fifth Child: A Festive Discussion on the Exodus and History
Who is the "Fifth Child" at your Passover Seder? The child or adult who asks (or wants to ask) some new and challenging questions. Questions like: is this a true story? Or is the tale of Moses and the Pharaohs really just an ancient myth? But if it is a myth, why have so many tyrants throughout our history acted just like the Pharaohs? This new Haggadah raises these and other questions as it recites the traditional rituals and discusses the Passover story. Scripted like a socratic dialogue about the biblical narrative, it has a part for everyone: the child, the neophyte, the historian, the rebel, the sage, and the skeptic. And there is plenty of room for the unscripted discussions that are certain to follow.