#that's probably the reason it's tzfarde'a singular
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it's a beautiful day outside.
the sun is shining, frogs are croaking.
on days like these, enslavers like you
should be swimming in blood
As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.
In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.
#yeah yeah tzfardea came after dam i know shut up#also i said it before and i'll say this again. anything that has ten or more of it can be referred to as singular grammatically in Hebrew#that's probably the reason it's tzfarde'a singular#although it does raise the question of consistency since kinim isn't called kina for example#so maybe it really was just one frog. what do i know#jumblr#jewish tumblr#passover#pesa'h#hey look i'm properly tagging a post again#been a while since i've done that#too much?#eh#here have some more tag cus i'm feeling generous#i just realised my own inconsistency of transliterating it as tzfardea the first time and tzfarde'a the second time#but if i wanna change the first one into tzfarde'a as well that requires me to re-write all these tags#and i'm not doing that#that's too many tags#anyhow#tags end here#surely they do#right?#right#there ya go#yom tov!
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