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Chad gadya
"And came the water and doused the fire etc."
The sixth kingdom is that of Persia and Media, whose fortunes
swelled like the waters of the sea, extinguishing the might of
Babylon. "Their voices will roar like the sea." Said the prophet
Yirmiyahu, describing the torrent that was to be Media.
"And came the ox and drank the water etc."
Taurus the bull is the astrological force appointed by Hashem to
steer the fortunes of Greece. In Jewish thought, Greece is
associated with spiritual darkness - "And the earth was empty and
void and darkness on the face of the deep." (Bereishis 1:2) The
Greeks tried to darken the eyes of the Jewish People, claiming that
they had forfeited their unique connection to Hashem as a result
of the incident of the golden calf. They said "Write upon the horn of
a bull that you have no portion in the G-d of Israel. This bull of
Macedonian Greece came and licked up the water that was Media.
"And came the slaughterer and killed the ox etc."
The bull of Macedonia met its demise at the hands of the
slaughterer of Rome. No other nation is stained so red with blood
as Rome. Ruled by the warlike planet Mars, the kingdom of
Romulus is the spiritual descendent of Esav, who was born
covered in a mantle of red hair. Rome stands for the power of the
material world. He encapsulates everything physical and 'this-
worldly'. We are still under the sway of Rome in the guise of its
current cultural heirs.
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