Timeline for Chad Gadya: The price of a kid goat
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| Apr 25, 2016 at 12:27 | answer | added | sabbahillel | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 9, 2014 at 21:09 | vote | accept | Fred | ||
| May 9, 2014 at 20:02 | answer | added | Murex | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 30, 2013 at 20:40 | comment | added | user2709 | The joke was not meant as an answer. But it is a standard torah on the hagada. So it must be true that kids cost more. | |
| Mar 29, 2013 at 5:31 | comment | added | msh210♦ | Closely related (to the question and, especially, to the comments above): judaism.stackexchange.com/q/27516 | |
| May 14, 2012 at 0:14 | comment | added | Menachem | Good point. As I found out here -- judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/16326/… --, 200 zuz is supposed to be enough to last 1 year, that means one zuz can support someone for roughly a day and a half | |
| May 13, 2012 at 23:56 | comment | added | Fred | @Menachem Interesting, but considering the vast differences in their economic system, this information only goes so far. The Gemara suggests that a goat may cost four zuzim (Kerisus 27a; Shabbos 152a). Any sources about kid goats, or, more generally, any sources suggesting that young animals have around half the value of an adult? | |
| May 11, 2012 at 2:26 | comment | added | Menachem | according to here, a zuz is 3.5078250 grams of pure silver -- aish.com/atr/Ketubah_200_Zuz.html?catid=954644 -- using this website to calculate todays silver prices tells us that 2 zuz equals $6.50 -- silvergrambars.com/calculator/silver_calc.php | |
| May 11, 2012 at 0:58 | comment | added | Fred | @Menachem - fascinating interpretation, but I'd still like to know if the value is wrong, and, if so, by how much. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 22:37 | comment | added | Menachem | Perhaps the point is exactly that. In the eyes of the nation the Jews' value was minimal. G-d bought us for dirt cheap. | |
| May 10, 2012 at 20:15 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackJudaism/status/200680489353355264 | ||
| May 10, 2012 at 19:29 | history | edited | Double AA♦ |
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| May 10, 2012 at 19:28 | history | asked | Fred | CC BY-SA 3.0 |