Rashi says at the end of Parshas Shlach (bamidbar 15/41) that the eight strings that hang from each corner of the tzitzis are there to remind us of the eight days that we waited from leaving Egypt till we sang at the crossing of the Red Sea. This clearly contradicts a Rashi in Parshas Beshalach
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Chad Gadya is one the most well known and loved songs sung at the end of the seder. It seems to read like a simple nursery rhyme (l’havdil) but it actually sums up the whole of Jewish history from its inception till the end of time. Let us look at it through the eyes of
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