Cat (rabbinic parable — S1E14)

An unnamed cat that appears solely as a figure within a rabbinic parable invoked during a synagogue sermon. It functions as an allegorical agent rather than a recurring character, its imagined actions helping to compress moral cause-and-effect into a memorable image that sharpens the sermon’s ethical point. The cat’s narrative role concentrates on symbolic propulsion: it catalyzes reflection among listeners and tightens the scene’s moral calculus without taking on agency beyond the parable’s rhetorical purpose.