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Let's look at the surface a second. Chad Gadya has ten
stanzas.

It goes like this:
One kid. One kid. That daddy bought for two zuzim. One
kid. One kid.
And came the cat and ate the kid that daddy bought for

two zuzim. One kid. One kid.
And came the dog and bit the cat that ate the kid etc.
And came the stick and hit the dog etc.
And came the fire and burned the stick etc.
And came the water and doused the fire etc.
And came the ox and drank the water etc.
And came the slaughterer and killed the ox etc.
And came the angel of death and killed the slaughterer
etc.

And came The Holy One Blessed be He and killed the
angel of death that killed the slaughterer that killed the ox
that drank the water that doused the fire that hit the dog
that bit the cat that ate the kid that daddy bought for two
zuzim. One kid. One kid.

The ten stanzas of Chad Gadya correspond to the ten

kingdoms that will rule from before the beginning of time
until the end of the world.

They are:

Hashem alone before the creation.
The Babylon of Nimrod
Egypt
Yisrael until the destruction of the First Temple

The Babylon of Nebuchadnezar
Persia and Media
Greece and Macedonia
Rome
Mashiach
Hashem alone

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