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Chad gadya
"And came the stick and hit the dog etc."
The stick is the staff of Hashem that Moshe used to 'hit' the
Egyptians. This was the staff that turned into a snake and ate all
the staffs of the Egyptian sorcerers. This was the staff that was
raised over the Nile and turned it to blood and it was this staff that
vanquished the might of Pharaoh. The staff symbolizes the fourth
kingdom - the kingdom of Yisrael. Yisrael achieved tranquillity with
the building of the first Beis Hamikdash, when the staff - the
scepter - of Yehuda held sway. Then came the fire...
"And came the fire and burned the stick etc."
When the Jewish People turned aside from the Torah and began to
sin, a fire was dispatched out of Heaven. A lion of fire appeared to
blaze through the Paroches - the curtain that divided the Holy
from the Holy of Holies in the Temple. This lion of fire, in terrestrial
form, took the shape of the Babylonian kingdom of Nebuchadnezar
which 'burned the staff' of Yisrael. Nebuchadnezar became the
instrument of Heavenly justice to punish TheJewish People.
Nebuchadnezar razed Zion. The Temple was burned to the ground
and Yisrael was lead into slavery. But fire can be doused by water...
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