We were on our way home after yomtov tonight and we were listening to the radio. Radio Kol Chai to be exact.

They had a program in which children called in and sang the Mah Nishtana and got some sort of prize. They had children calling in from all over the country, each with different backgrounds. Sephardic, ashkenazic, hassidic, haredi, dati leumi, and everything else.

What I found interesting was that every single child, bar none, sang the Mah Nishatana to the same exact tune. We did not hear even one sing it differently.

The Mah Nishtana tune is universal. Where we find other customs and tunes changing over regions and locations, while we find in the range of our liturgy no uniform tune in one neighborhood let alone from amongst sephardic and ashkenazic communities or from different parts of cities, countries, continents, the Mah Nishtana stands alone in the fact that it cuts across all regional divisions, all cultural divisions and all custom divisions and is uniform among everybody.

I do not know what it means, but it was interesting to note.