Haggadah Mi Yodeya!

[cellio]

I am thrilled to announce the publication of Mi Yodeya's haggadah supplement! At the Pesach seder we are supposed to ask questions (about the exodus from Egypt and about the rituals of the seder, and anything else that comes up along the way). Mi Yodeya, a top-notch Jewish Q&A site (if I do say so myself :-) ), is all about questions. So we compiled some of ours that are on-topic for the seder into a book, a supplement to the haggadah. I hope you'll download a copy for possible use at your own seder (or just to read) and that you'll tell all your friends.

Go to http://s.tk/miyodeya for more info and a download link.

Comments

[cjsherwood.livejournal.com]

Last night I was getting errors on the page and so on...

Is there a reason they did it through Dropbox and not as a link to a PDF hosted on the site itself? I suspect that may be where part of the problem is... because I got to the Dropbox page but it didn't seem to load properly.

ETA: I tried it this morning in a different browser and it loaded, though with a "This PDF document may not be displayed correctly" warning. I printed it and it seems fine. Can't wait to read it! though I do have to admit I laughed at the line about contemporary readers and questions given how much they already know about Passover and the seder bit in the introduction... after all, I suspect many readers will be people who have no clue! (including yours truly; I don't read Hebrew, etc.). This should be very educational, in a good way.

[cellio]

I never try to read PDFs directly in the browser; I either download or launch in an external application. So I haven't seen the problem you did, sorry.

As for Dropbox, it turns out that while the site readily hosts its own built-in content (questions, answer, chat, etc), sticking an arbitrary, large file out there on their site is not so straightforward. So we put it on Dropbox, and if later Stack Exchange can host it we'll do that and update the landing page. We deliberately linked to a page with a link to the PDF, rather than directly to the PDF, so we could be flexible. (Also, because someday we may have more publications but we'll want them all to be collected in one place.)

We tried for a mix of questions to address different levels of background knowledge. Maybe some questions will make you go "huh?" but others may be spot-on for you. We'll see!