midrash in English
In a Midrash , the ancient rabbis asked why Eve was created from Adam's side.
Use "midrash" in a sentence
1. The Midrash Rabbah is the most cohesive collection of Midrash Aggadah, although Midrash Aggadah …
2. Most midrash explores ethical ideas, biblical characters or narrative moments, and is known as midrash Aggadah. (Aggadah literally means “telling” or story.)
3. In addition to overarching studies that serve as introductions to Midrash and Aggadah in general, there are introductions to smaller subgroups of rabbinic midrashic works or individual works, such as Kahana 1987–2006 on the earliest (Tannaitic) Midrash and Hirshman 1987–2006 on the somewhat later (Amoraic) narrative Midrash
4. Jacob Neusner (1932-2016), in his comment on the midrash, says, “The verb ‘go out’ when associated with a woman carries the sense of ‘Awhoring’.”[16] Similarly, Midrash Yelamdenu (ca
5. The Midrash Aggadah is not meant to be literal Scripture — more jumping-off points for contemplation
6. Aggadah (אַגָּדְתָא “tales, lore”) refers to non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash.
7. Besht’s Beis Midrash was built in 5202 (1442), three hundred years before the Ba’al Shem Tov arrived in the city of Medzhibuzh
8. In the preface Jaffe explains that it was his aim to interpret the Aggadot of the Jerusalem Talmud "because they are very similar to the Aggadot of the Midrash Rabbah in style and in language"; (2) Yefeh To'ar, commentary to the Midrash Rabbah: Genesis (Venice, 1597–1606); Exodus (Venice, 1597); Leviticus (Constantinople, 1648; Wilmersdorf
9. 16, after Hagar had placed Ishmael under the bush, she sat down “at a distance, a bowshot [ki-mtahavei, literally, Bowshots] away.” Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah
10. Aggadah ( plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth ) A homiletic and non- legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash
11. Aggadah (plural Aggadahs or Aggadah or Aggadot or Aggadoth) A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical text in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash
12. The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible, and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud.
13. Malamud as modern Midrash We are all familiar with the oft-quoted group of Aggadot illustrating the paradoxical statement: "Whatever a veteran student of the law is destined to innovate has already been said to Moses at Sinai."
14. The Bible is relatively silent on the first few decades of Abraham’s life, telling us that he was the son of Terach and husband of Sarah, but not much else.But many crucial details are filled in by the Midrash and Talmud.Here is how it is summed up by Maimonides:
15. The answer is written in Gemara and Poskim: Our Rabbis have taught: All the restrictions that apply to the mourner hold equally good of the Ninth of Ab It is also forbidden [thereon] to read the Law (Pentateuch) {they rejoicing the hearth}, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa or to study Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash, Halachoth, or Aggadoth; he may, however, read such parts of Scripture which he