The Had Gadya is a song sung at the Passover Seder or meal. The language is Aramaic as are some other parts of the mainly Hebrew ceremony. It is sung in most cases boisterously, with much enthusiasm and happiness that emanate from the children as well as the adults. The melody is lifting, repetitious and making it easy to learn and sing, and builds to a crescendo of exaltation. This has much to do with its theme which seems to bring home the message that though so much seems to be unjust and have gone wrong and against us, it has happened thus only to show who He is, and He, our God, will have the last word. He will have the final say. It demonstrates the indirect inculcations of moral lessons (more "caught" or imbibed than taught) - in this case, that beyond the injustices of this life, w
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