In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
AGGADAH
Etymology
Noun
Aggadah (plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth)
A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud. [from 17th c.]
Obsolete form of Haggadah; the text recited at Seder.
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• Haggada
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