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. Ma'arik, explanations in alphabetical order of foreign words in the Talmud, the Midrashim, and the Zohar.

6. The Midrash Aggadah is not meant to be literal Scripture — more jumping-off points for contemplation

7. HEBRAIC LITERATURE; TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASHIM AND KABBALA VARIOUS Even the religion of Stilicho was Arraigned by the malice of his rival

8. 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.

9. Besht’s Beis Midrash was built in 5202 (1442), three hundred years before the Ba’al Shem Tov arrived in the city of Medzhibuzh

10. Rabbinic discussions about the two versions of Creation and the Androgyne can be found in Genesis Rabbah and Leviticus Rabbah, which are collections of midrashim about the books of Genesis and Leviticus

11. 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

12. HEBRAIC LITERATURE; TRANSLATIONS FROM THE TALMUD, MIDRASHIM AND KABBALA VARIOUS I will not however speak of them all, but only those whom I suppose to be worthy of Commemoration and full discussion

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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.

17. 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."

18. 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:

19. 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