Haggadah Shel Pesach Hardcover Book in Gold #286

Gold hardcover, 96 pages, six inches square. The square format is the noticeable thing here — it sits differently on a table than a standard upright haggadah and stays put when it is opened, and at that size it is substantial enough to feel like a book rather than a pamphlet. The contents run through bedikas chametz, sreifas chametz, eiruv tavshilin and the complete haggadah.

The nusach is selected at the order, in Ashkenaz or Eduth Mizrach. Beyond that there is nothing to specify. The hardcover binding is the reason to take this over the paperback booklet: it survives being used two nights and then stacked in a closet for a year, and it will still be usable at the tenth seder rather than the second.

Gold reads warm under candles and is the shade most people take when the rest of the table is set with gold-toned pieces. Bought in quantity, a set of these gives every seat the same haggadah, which makes following along considerably easier when someone calls out a page — a small thing that matters when there are children at the table and the night is already long.

• Malchut design #286
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach

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