The Pesach Seder ends, as everyone knows, with the song “Chad Gadya” – “One Kid”. The song begins with a pet goat, and ends with the death of the Angel of Death. Along the way almost everything else gets eaten, killed or injured (or drunk). Life is tough in this song. One of the lines… Read more

I came accross an interesting line in the Gemara the other day. Kiddushin 46a cites a baraita which the Amoraim find confusing. Rabbi Yohanan describes the confusion as follows: Said R. Johanan: Behold a table, meat and knife, yet we have no mouth to eat! Soncino explains (based on Rashi) the obvious meaning of the… Read more