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Chad gadya

"And came the cat and ate the kid that daddy bought for two
zuzim. One kid. One kid."

Then came the cat - the shunra. The second kingdom is Babylon.

Nimrod's capital where he built the tower of Babylon was in the

valley of 'shinar'. The motivation for that tower came from a soneh

ra - 'an evil hater'- Nimrod who hated Hashem and his
representative on this world Avraham Avinu. Nimrod came and 'ate'

the gadya - Avraham Avinu. He threw him into the consuming fire

of a fiery furnace. When Avraham miraculously emerged, he

emerged as a new creation.

"And came the dog and bit the cat that ate the kid etc."

"As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool to his folly." There can be

no greater example of a fool returning to his folly than Pharaoh,

King of Egypt. Despite all the plagues of Egypt, Pharaoh repeated

his mistake over and over again. The calba - the dog - is the

symbol of the third kingdom, the kingdom of Egypt which 'bit' the
cat of Babylon. It overshadowed and outshone the kingdom of

Babylon, even though there was never a direct military

confrontation. Thus it only 'bit' but didn't 'eat'.

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