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Table of Contents
Foreword – Rabbi Leigh D. Lerner…………………………………………………

How to use the Haggadah……………………………………………………………
Preparation of the puppets……………………………………………………………
Preparation of the ceremonial foods for the Seder……………………..…………
Setting the table to present the ceremonial foods………………………...………
Performing the puppet show…………………………………………………………
How is this Haggadah different from the other 29,000 published
Haggadahs?…………………………………………………………………………….
Do we infantalize the Passover traditions by setting them in the
dramatic voice, adding humor and song?…………………………………………..
How many children do you need to perform this?…………….………………….
If you use this Haggadah when your children are small,
when do you use a traditional Haggadah?…………………...……………………
How to adapt the script for Model Seders or classroom use…………...…………
Inevitable spills…………………………………………………………………………

The story – Musical Puppet Show (approximately 1 hour)
Introduction to the story…………………………………………………………….
Family photos………………………………………………………..………………
Lighting the candles……………………………………………………...…………
Optional Four Questions……………………………..……………………………
Reclining on pillows…………………………………………...……………………
First cup of wine………………………………………………..……………………
Scene 1: In which we find out what it is like to live when the new Pharoah is king. (Pharoah, Slave, Narrator)……………….……………………………...……
Maror or bitter herbs…………………………………………………….……
Charoset…………………………………………………………………………...
Scene 2: In which we find out how one Jewish baby boy was saved.
(Narrator/Baby Moses, Yocheved, Miriam, Princess)……………………………
Scene 3: In which Moses hurts an Egyptian.
(Narrator, Taskmaster, Slave, Moses)……………………………………………
Scene 4: In which Moses is a shepherd.
(Moses, sheep, Narrator)…………………………………………………………
Scene 5: In which Moses and Aaron ask Pharoah to let the Jews leave Egypt.
(Moses, Aaron, Pharoah, Miriam, Taskmaster, Narrator)……………………
Karpas (greens) dipped in salt water……………………………………………
Lamb shank bone or paschal lamb (zeroah)……………………………………
Matzah………………………………………………………………………………
Second cup of wine………………………………………………………………
“Dayenu”……………………………………………………………………………
Egg (beitzah)…………………………………………………………………………
Cup of Elijah…………………………………………………………………………
Third cup of wine………………………………………………….………………
Afikomen or middle matzah…………………………………………………….
Handwashing………………………………………………………………………

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Grace after the meal………………………………………………………………
Fourth cup of wine…………………………………………………………………
Optional Four Questions…………………………………………………………

Songs…………………………………………………………………………………

Pharoah Doesn’t Pay………………………………………………………………
It Made Them Mad…………………………………………………………………
Bad things will come to Eqypt (Plagues)………………………………………
Pharoah’s Lament………………………………………………………………
Had Gadya (An Only Kid)………………………………………………………
Ehad Mi Yodeah (Who Knows One)……………………………………………
Adir Hu (God of Might)……………………………………………….……………
Other books to use with children………………………………………………
Recipes for Charoset……………………………………………………………
Yemenite…………………………………………………………………………
Israeli……………………………………………………………………………….
Ashkenazi and Italian……………………………………………………………
Sephardic…………………………………………………………………………
Guest list and puppet players……………………………………………………
*Puppet instructions………………………………………………………………
*Puppets to cut out (in order of appearance)……………………………………
About the author, illustrator and book……………………………………………
*Puppet palace and puppet tent…………………………………………………


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