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| | "Sing a Song of Passover," by Cantor Sam Weiss |
 | | Adir Hu, Ekhad Mi Yode'a and Khad Gadya first began their close association with the Passover ritual in the Ashkenazic tradition, appearing sporadically or not at all in the Haggadot of other Jewish communities. |
 | | Perhaps the most famous of this group is Khad Gadya, a cumulative narrative about the goat which is eaten by a cat, which is bitten by a dog, which is hit by a stick, and so on. |
 | | Unlike the famous Aramaic passage at the beginning of the Haggadah, Ha Lakhma Anya, the "invitation to the Seder" composed in Babylonia around the 8th century, Khad Gadya seems to have been written around the 15th century, a time when this language had long ceased to be a Jewish vernacular. |
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