What does Chad Gadya mean this Passover?

At Passover, we sing Chad Gadya, a silly but spooky song that children at the seder love. It starts with a verse about a father buying a goat for two zuzim. As a kid, I loved thinking about those two zuzim, which, for some reason, I thought was the currency of Prague during the Middle Ages. My grandfather had given me a storybook about a boy in medieval Prague, and that’s probably the source of my association. The other thing I remember about Chad Gadya, which translates into “An Only Kid,” as in a goat, is my dad heroically leading us through the song. It’s a long song, requiring a lot of breath, because after the father buys the goat […]