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SixOfWands
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 Wed, Apr 24 2019, 3:36 pm
| SuperWify wrote: | | They are most definitely not folklore songs. Chad gadya is a deep mystical metaphor where Hashem is the father that sold us the goat to galus and we were passed all over the generations and exiles. My mind is a drop rusty but maybe another knowledgeable amother can elaborate? |
Aish says the father is Jacob, who bought the birthright from Esav.
https://www.aish.com/h/pes/h/T......html
However you interpret it, I've always learned that its a distillation of Jewish history taught in metaphor to avoid any authorities who forbade the teaching of Jewish law/history.
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