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Chad gadya

The Seder is over. You are about to settle back into your chair,

when suddenly you are roused from your wine-induced reverie by

everyone launching into the traditional rendering of Chad Gadya.
"What are we doing singing nursery rhymes at a time like this?" -

You think to yourself. "Here we all are energetically belting out a

song that everyone sings, and no-one has the slightest idea of

what it's got to do with Pesach! Is Chad Gadya no more than what

'I know an old lady who swallowed a fly' would have sounded like if
Burl Ives had been Jewish? Is it no more than a harmless ditty to

amuse the children? Or does Chad Gadya have a secret meaning?

A hidden depth of allusion beneath the surface...

Let's look at the surface a second. Chad Gadya has ten stanzas. It
goes like this:

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