The Shabbat Haggadah: Tammuz 5786 is a guide for your Shabbat table during the month of Tammuz, a season of reflection on grief, when we find ourselves both seeking to process the hardships of the world, and standing up to make a world in which we have defeated the systems that create widespread grief.

Rather than a single Kiddush, this haggadah offers four cups, each paired with a text and reflection prompts drawing on poetry, Talmud, midrash, and Hasidic teaching. The cups move through four themes: poetry and song, action and doing, ethical responsibility, and spiritual practice. You can use all four in a single evening, or one cup per Shabbat throughout the month.

This haggadah was created by the American Council for Judaism in collaboration with Rabbis for Ceasefire, and includes contributions from three writers whose Jewish commitments span administration, rabbinics, and mystical art.

Whether you gather with a havurah, a family, a few friends around a table, or for personal reflection, this haggadah offers a structure for Shabbat that is rooted in tradition and oriented toward the world we are working to build.

Shabbat Haggadah Tammuz 5786