page_title: Haggadah
section_title: Ha Lachma Anya (invitation to the Seder)
hierarchical_section_title: Haggadah / Passover Seder according to the Haggadah / Magid (relating the Exodus) / Ha Lachma Anya (invitation to the Seder)
context_page_description: The Haggadah is a Jewish text that sets forth the order of the Passover Seder. Reading the Haggadah at the Seder table is a fulfillment of the mitzvah to each Jew to "tell your son" of the Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt as described in the Book of Exodus in the Torah.
  Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews also apply the term Haggadah to the service itself, as it constitutes the act of "telling your son."
context_section_description: The matzot are uncovered, and referred to as the "bread of affliction". Participants declare in Aramaic an invitation to all who are hungry or needy to join in the Seder. Halakha requires that this invitation be repeated in the native language of the country.
caption: A bronze matzo plate designed by Maurice Ascalon, inscribed with the opening words of Ha Lachma Anya
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