A Judeo-Tajik translation of the popular Passover song, Ḥad Gadya. . . .
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Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer and Shimon ben Eliyahu Hakham
Categories:  Leil Pesaḥ | Tags:  zemirot, Aramaic, piyyutim, predation, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Nirtsah, Judeo-Tajik, Bukharan Jewry, Bukhori, Needing Attribution
Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories: Leil Pesaḥ | Tags: zemirot, Aramaic, piyyutim, predation, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Nirtsah, Judeo-Berber, Judeo-Tamaziɣt, Needing Attribution 
A Judeo-Berber translation of the popular Passover song, Ḥad Gadya. . . . Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories: Leil Pesaḥ | Tags: zemirot, Aramaic, piyyutim, Ladino Translation, predation, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Nirtsah, Judezmo, Judeo-Spanish, Needing Attribution 
A Judezmo/Ladino translation of the popular Passover song, Ḥad Gadya. . . . Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories: Leil Pesaḥ | Tags: zemirot, Aramaic, piyyutim, predation, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Nirtsah, Judeo-Arabic, Baghdad, Needing Attribution 
A Judeo-Arabic translation of the popular Passover song, Ḥad Gadya. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Leil Pesaḥ | Tags: Yiddish, zemirot, Aramaic, piyyutim, predation, salvation, 16th century C.E., 53rd century A.M., Nirtsah, Prague, Needing Attribution 
Making sense of Ḥad Gadya beyond its explicit meaning has long inspired commentary. For me, Ḥad Gadya expresses in its own beautiful and macabre way a particularly important idea in Judaism that has become obscure if not esoteric. While an animal’s life may today be purchased, ultimately, the forces of exploitation, predation, and destruction that dominate our world will be overturned. Singing Ḥad Gadya is thus particularly apropos for the night of Passover since, in the Jewish calendar, this one night, different from all other nights, is considered the most dangerous night of the year — it is the time in which the forces of darkness in the world are strongest. Why? It is on this night that the divine aspect of Mashḥit, the executioner, is explicitly invoked (albeit, only in the context of the divine acting as midwife and guardian/protector of her people), as explained in the midrash for Exodus 12:12 . . . |
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