For American Jews, the haggadah that they may have used at their Passover seders may have been the Maxwell House Haggadah (and if it still is, might I suggest a replacement!) – old, stale, dumbed down, and boring. And, above all, about coffee. Of course, it was a brilliant marketing move by Maxwell House, to show that coffee was kosher for Passover. But a lousy haggadah that did nothing to educate American Jewry.
Well, Israel doesn’t have the Maxwell House haggadah but we have better starting this year – the Golan Heights Winery Haggadah. At Supersol, if you buy 2 wines from the Golan Heights Winery, you can get a free haggadah. I picked up some Gamla Savignon Blanc for after the holiday. Of course, unlike Maxwell House, no one will be surprised that wine is kosher for Passover as wine – and good wine – is an essential part of the Jewish tradition (in fact, I just read this past Shabbat in the Shulchan Aruch – the code of Jewish law – that it is forbidden to use mevushal wine for seder, unless it is really really good wine. Jews have a religious obligation to drink GOOD wine on Shabbat and holidays! Those who have grown up with Carmel King David concord or the American Manishewitz and Mogen David dreck have, in fact, not been fulfilling Jewish law in using quality wine for holy purposes! But I digress…). The important thing here is that quality wine is an important part of the Jewish tradition – a mitzvah, sacred commandment, even! From the Golan Heights Winery haggadah (my translation):
The Passover holiday is also the holiday of wine. With the traditional four cups that accompany the reading of the haggadah, and more abundance of good wine that is drunk throughout this spring holiday.
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