I know 14 (edit: no I don't)
Mar. 27th, 2024 01:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoySo the other day the thought occurred to me, I wonder why Echad Mi Yodeya stops at 13?
And the answer that immediately followed in my mind was, duh, it's because what the hell is there 14 of? Just getting to 13 is hard enough! Already the verse for 11 is a stretch and the verse for 9 is a *big* stretch. I mean they could have stopped at 8, I guess, but 8 just isn't a lot.
...then today in discussion the 14 parts of the seder came up and I was like. Huh. That's a 14 right there. Dang it, that should be the 14th verse of Echad Mi Yodeya!
EDIT: Oh, oops, it's because there's 15 parts, not 14. The thing I was looking at combined "Motzi" and "Matzah", but those are usually considered separate. Well, there goes that idea.
(Unrelatedly, we're now down to 202 books!)
-Harry
And the answer that immediately followed in my mind was, duh, it's because what the hell is there 14 of? Just getting to 13 is hard enough! Already the verse for 11 is a stretch and the verse for 9 is a *big* stretch. I mean they could have stopped at 8, I guess, but 8 just isn't a lot.
...then today in discussion the 14 parts of the seder came up and I was like. Huh. That's a 14 right there. Dang it, that should be the 14th verse of Echad Mi Yodeya!
EDIT: Oh, oops, it's because there's 15 parts, not 14. The thing I was looking at combined "Motzi" and "Matzah", but those are usually considered separate. Well, there goes that idea.
(Unrelatedly, we're now down to 202 books!)
-Harry
