Chad Gadya

Chad Gadya or Had Gadya (Aramaic: חַד גַדְיָא chad gadya, "one little goat", or "one kid"; Hebrew: "גדי אחד gedi echad") is a playful cumulative song in Aramaic and Hebrew. It is sung at the end of the Passover Seder, the Jewish ritual feast that marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The melody may have its roots in Medieval German folk music. It appeared in Haggadahs printed in Prague in 1527 and 1590, and an early version appears in a siddur from the Jewish community of Provence, circa 13th to 14th century. This makes it a more recent inclusion in the traditional Passover seder liturgy.

The song is popular with children and similar to other cumulative songs: Echad Mi Yodea, ("Who Knows 'One'?") another cumulative song, is also in the Passover Haggadah.

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