From the Companion Volume: "This page illustrates the prose recapitulation of the Dayenu poem, "How much greater then - incalculably great - are the benefits which the Ever-Present God did confer upon us in double and redoubled measure!" It consists of micrography, miniaturized calligraphy used for graphic effect, in the form of one of the lion guardians so omnipresent in Mandate architecture in Jerusalem. The image is formed of the more than seventy names of Jerusalem, Ariel, "lion of God" among them. These names are accompanied by verses from the Psalms and other scriptural references to Jerusalem. Just as the history of salvation is built as a mosaic of many incidences of redemption, some large and national, some small and personal, but all intertwined, so is the "personality" of Jerusalem built of many different perceptions and conceptions, represented by her seventy names."

The Companion Volume is a valuable text in its own right, it places in context the Haggadah's singular illuminations. It was written by Dr. Marc Epstein of Vassar College, an international authority on Jewish art and symbolism. A former director of the Books and Manuscripts Division of the Judaica Department of Sotheby's New York, Epstein has served as a consultant to libraries, galleries, auction houses, and collectors around the world.

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