Haggadah

noun (plural Haggadoth or Haggadot /-dəʊt/)

• 1the text recited at the Seder on the first two nights of the Jewish Passover, including a narrative of the Exodus: about six weeks before Passover we began to study the Haggadah

• 2a legend, parable, or anecdote used to illustrate a point of the Law in the Talmud.
• [mass noun] the non-legal, narrative element of the Talmud. Compare with Halacha.