Rabbinical Literature MidrashTadshe Hebrew is a small midrash which begins with an interpretation of Gen. i. 11 quotation And God said, Let the earth bring forth Tadshe ha are . Why, asked R. Phinehas , did God decree that grass and herbs and fruits should grow upon the third day, while light was not created until the fourth? To show His infinite power, which is almighty for even without the light He caused the earth to bring forth while now He creates all manner of trees and plants through the operation of the light . The name of the author occurs twice ed. A. Epstein , pp. xxi., xxxi. , and the midrash closes with the words ad kan me dibre R. Pine as ben Ya ir . No other authors are named. This midrash is peculiar in several respects, varying in many statements from other midrashim, and, although written in pure Hebrew , it contains numerous expressions which are not found elsewhere, such as and and planets, p. xix. . The structure of the midrash is very loose. Analogies with the Book of Jubilees The MidrashTadshe is in the main symbolic in tendency, and it plays much on groups of numbers. Section 2 contains a symbolization of the Tabernacle Judaism Tabernacle , and, according to A. Epstein , the central idea of the midrash is the theory ... in the midrash . On the other hand, section 6 of the MidrashTadshe is in entire agreement with the Book ... that in this and many other passages the author of the MidrashTadshe used the Book of Jubilees ..., and a much more plausible view of Epstein s is that which regards the MidrashTadshe as the work ... zur J dischen Alterthumskunde, Vienna, 1887 . The MidrashTadshe must not be confused with another ... two letters of the alphabet . Epstein has drawn attention to other striking analogies between this midrash ... ben Jair was regarded as the author of this midrash, and Num. R. xiii. 10 and xiv. 12, 18 contain several expositions and maxims from it cited under the name of that tannaim tanna . The midrash, from ... more details
alphabet MidrashTadshe called also Baraita de Rabbi Pinehas ben Yair Midrash Rabbah Midrash Rabbah ...refimprove date April 2009 Jews and Judaism sidebar texts The Hebrew term Midrash lang he plural ... . The term also refers to the whole compilation of homiletic teachings on the Bible . Midrash is a way ..., Haaretz ref Etymology Gesenius ascribes the etymology of midrash to the Qal linguistics ... Lexicon midrash ref The word, midrash occurs twice in the Hebrew Bible 2 Chronicles 13 22 in the midrash of the prophet Iddo prophet Iddo , and 24 27 in the midrash of the Book of the Kings. Methodology ... or philosophy, lit. secret or mystery . The Midrash concentrates somewhat on remez but mostly on derash Some thinkers divide PaRDeS into pshat, remez, din law and sod. In this understanding, midrash aggada deals with remez and midrash halakha deals with din . Many different exegetical methods are employed ... narrative may become long philosophical discussions. It is unclear whether the Midrash ... in a sub genre of midrash known as the petikhta. Some Midrash discussions are highly metaphorical, and many ... by detractors. Forms of Midrashic literature In general the Midrash is focused on either halakha legal ... midrashim Rabbinical Literature Midrash halakha are the works in which the sources in the Tanakh ... . The Midrash linking a verse to a halakha will often function as a proof of a law s authenticity ... Midrash and Talmuds . Aggadic midrashim main Aggadah Homiletic midrashim embraces the interpretation ... practice idolatry , etc. Some of these midrashim entail mystical teachings. The presentation is such that the Midrash ... day. Book of Genesis Genesis 1 31 Midrash Rabbi Nahman said in Rabbi Samuel s name Behold, it was good ... versions of this midrash collection. One is Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael , the other is Mekhilta ... halakha from Biblical verses. This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd ... back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva. The midrash on Exodus that was known to the Amoraim is not the same ... more details
Midrash Shmuel may refer to Midrash Shmuel aggadah , an aggadic midrash on the Books of Samuel Midrash Shmuel sefer , a 16th century commentary on Pirkei Avot by Rabbi Shmuel d Ouzida of Venice Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva , an English speaking yeshiva in Jerusalem disamb ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Rabbinical Literature Midrash Yeshayah is a midrash mentioned by Abravanel , Abraham Portaleone , and the author of the midrash commentary Mattenot Ke hunnah to Wayi ra Rabbah , section 29, and Bemidbar Rabbah , section 16 . But no extract from this midrash is found either in Yal u Shim oni or in Yal u Makiri . JewishEncyclopedia Category Midrashim Category Lost Jewish texts ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Rabba or Midrash Rabbah can refer to part of or the collective whole of aggadic midrashim on the books of the Tanach , generally having the term Rabbah , meaning great, as part of their name. These midrashim are as follows Genesis Rabbah Exodus Rabbah Leviticus Rabbah Numbers Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Canticles Rabbah Ruth Rabbah Esther Rabbah Lamentations Rabbah Ecclesiastes Rabbah The designation Rabbah was first applied to the midrash to Book of Genesis Genesis , and then applied to the midrashim to the other books of the Pentateuch , as Wayi ra Rabbah , Shemot Rabbah , etc., which were copied, with Bereshit Rabbah, even in later manuscripts. This collection eventually came to be called Midrash Rabbot i.e., Midrash of the Rabbot , to which the midrashim most in use during divine service to Canticles , Book of Ruth , Book of Esther , Book of Lamentations Lamentations , and Ecclesiastes were subsequently added. Thus the Venice edition of 1545, in which ... on the title page of the first part the words Midrash Rabbot al amishshah umshe Torah Midrash Rabbah to the Five Books of the Torah , and on that of the second part Midrash amesh Megillot Rabbeta Midrash Rabbah of the Five Megillot . The editio princeps of the midrashim to the Pentateuch Constantinople ... reads Midrash amesh Megillot Midrash of the Five Megillot . Still more inexact and misleading is the term Midrash Rabbah to the Five Books of the Pentateuch and the Five Rolls, as found on the title ... out that the Midrash Rabbah consists of 10 entirely different midrashim. Manuscripts On the manuscript ... manuscripts of the rabbot to the Pentateuch and the Five Rolls in existence comp. Midrash ha Gadol ...?artid 587&letter M&search midrash 1920 Jewish Encyclopedia article for Midrash Aggadah , by Isidore Singer and J. Theodor . http www.tsel.org torah midrashraba index.html Midrash Rabba Hebrew text Category Midrash Rabba fr Midrash Rabba he pt Midrash Rab yi ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Proverbs Hebrew is the haggadic midrash to the Book of Proverbs , first mentioned under the title Midrash Mishle by R. Hananeel b. ushiel first half of the 11th century as quoted in the Mordekai on B.M. iii. 293. Nathan of Rome calls this midrash Agadat Mishle Aruk , s.v. . It was, besides, called erroneously Shocher Tov ed. Zolkiev, 1800 Benjacob , O ar ha Sefarim, p. 302, Nos. 449 451 , a name by which Midrash Tehillim is known. The midrash has not been ...., and others have been annotated only in part. The editor of the Yal u used some portions of this midrash ... in his work with the statement that they were taken from this midrash were really a part of the Midrash Mishle which he had at hand comp. S. Buber , Midrash Mishle, Introduction, p. 5b . Form This midrash ..., so that this work is in the form of a commentary rather than in that of a midrash. The interpretations ... of the midrash. The editor of the midrash drew upon the Mishnah , Tosefta , Mekilta , Sifre ... can not be determined. Zunz holds G. V. p. 268 that the midrash was compiled in the middle of the 11th ... , both of whom lived in the first half of that century. Buber thinks that the midrash was compiled ..., at the end of the Halakot Gedolot and in the Seder R. Amram 12b. Although the midrash contains ... to King Solomon Buber, l.c., p. 20b are found in no other extant midrash, but they correspond to the first four of the nineteen riddles mentioned in the manuscript Midrash ha efez comp. S. Schechter ... pp. 14b 15a , there is one of the Midrash Mishle in the library of the Jewish Theological ... Wilna, 1893 , with an introduction and notes. The Midrash Mishle has been translated into German ... Isaac Hirsch Weiss , Dor , iii. 276 S. Buber , introduction to his edition of the Midrash Mishle August W nsche , introduction to his translation of the Midrash Mishle. JewishEncyclopedia Category Midrashim Category Book of Proverbs fr Midrash sur les Proverbes ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Iyyob Hebrew or Midrash to Job is an aggadic midrash that is no longer extant. Eras of the Halakha Extracts with express reference to the source Midrash Iyyob are found to Job i. 14 in the Yal u Makiri to Isa. lxi. 11 , to Job i. 6 in an MS. commentary of Rashi to Job , to Job i. 1 and iv. 12 in an MS. Ma zor commentary both these commentaries were in the possession of Abraham Epstein , in Vienna comp. Ha o er, i. 325 , to Job vii. 9 in the Recanati to Gen. iii. 23 , to Job ii. 1 ? in the Recanati according to the statement in Rab Pe alim, p. 34 , to Job iv. 10 in Yal . Shim oni , ii. 897 . The extracts found in the Yal u Makiri to Psalms Ps. li. 7 and Psalms Ps. cxlvi. 4 with the source reference Midrash and referring to Job iii. 2 and xxxviii. 1, are, perhaps, likewise taken from the Midrash Iyyob, as are many passages in the Job commentaries of Samuel b. Nissim Masnuth Ma yan Gannim, Berlin, 1889 and Isaac b. Solomon Constantinople, 1545 . The extracts and quotations from Midrash Iyyob have been collected by Wertheimer Le e Midrashim, Jerusalem, 1903 comp. also Zunz , G. V. p. 270 Br ll s Jahrb. v. vi. 99 . Harvtxt Strack Stemberger 1991 cite an opinion attributing Midrash Iyyov to the amoraim amora Hoshaiah Rabbah 3rd century , although this dating is uncertain. According to Zunz , there are evidences of the existence of midrashim to Book of Ezra Ezra and Books of Chronicles Chronicles ib. p. 271 . For the Midrash al Yithallel , to Jer. ix. 22 and to the Hallel Midrash , see Smaller Midrashim . References JewishEncyclopedia Citation surname1 Strack given1 H.L. surname2 Stemberger Given2 G. title Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash publisher T&T Clark place Edinburgh year 1991 ISBN 978 0800625245 Category Aggadic Midrashim ... more details
Judaism Beth Midrash lang he also Beis Medrash , Beit Midrash , pl. batei midrash or botei medrash , lit. House of Interpretation or House of Learning refers to a study hall , whether in a synagogue , yeshiva , kollel , or other building. It is distinct from a synagogue , although many synagogues are also used as batei midrash and vice versa. Beis medrash is also the name of the undergraduate level program in Orthodox Judaism Orthodox yeshivas in the United States, for boys over 12th grade. ref cite book url http books.google.com books?id 1MArvfg24EsC&pg PA211&dq yeshiva ketana&hl en v ... thumb right 250px A typical Beth Midrash, Yeshivas Ner Yisroel , Baltimore . Generally, there are either ... Medrash will have shtender s standing desks resembling lecterns . A characteristic beth midrash .... In modern times, batei midrash are typically found as the central study halls of yeshivas or independent ..., so in popular parlance, yeshivot are sometimes referred to as batei midrash . A beth midrash ... below . Many batei midrash originally serve the community but attract a yeshiva in the course of their existence. Origin Early rabbinic literature, including the Mishnah , makes mention of the beth midrash ... Law . The origin of the beth midrash , or house of study can be traced to the early rabbinic period .... By late antiquity, the beth midrash had developed along with the synagogue into a distinct though somewhat related institution. The main difference between the beth midrash and beth hakeneses synagogue ... its sanctity while in the beth midrash both Torah study and prayer are allowed. For this reason most synagogues designate their sanctaury as a beth midrash so that in addition to prayer the study ... Judaism Category Orthodox yeshivas Category Hebrew words and phrases cs Bejt midra es Bet Midrash he lad Bet Midrash lt Betmidra as nl Beet midrasj id Beth midrash ja pl Beit midrasz pt Beth midrash sk Bejt midra yi ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Jonah is the midrash to the Book of Jonah , read on the Yom Kippur Day of Atonement as haf arah during the Min ah prayer, and containing a haggadic version of this prophetical book. In the editions the work consists of two parts the second part, in which the story of Jonah is allegorically referred to the soul, beginning with the words Wa yomer Adonai la dag, is reprinted in Adolf Jellinek , Bet ha Midrash i. 102 et seq. . This part is merely a literal translation from the Zohar comp. ib. p. xx. it is not found in the version printed by C. M. Horowitz after a Codex De Rossi in the Sammlung Kleiner Midraschim Berlin, 1881 . The first part, the midrash proper, is found also in the Yal u to Jonah part ii., 550 551 , with the exception of a few missing passages and with several variations but here the Pir e Rabbi Eli ezer is given as the source for some passages, Yerushalmi and Babli . Date and Authorship Jellinek assumes that the first part of the Midrash Jonah was compiled subsequently to Yal u . But as many passages which the Yal u has in common with the Midrash Jonah e.g., the penitential prayer given in Jellinek, Bet ha Midrash i. 99 and the description of Nineveh s grandeur there are not found in Pir e Rabbi Eli ezer and as, furthermore, the author of the Yal u probably did not find all this material in the Pir e Rabbi Eli ezer, he must have taken his quotations from a midrash which was substantially identical with the Midrash Jonah i.e., with the first part . The author of this midrash borrowed nearly the whole of ch. x. from the Pir e Rabbi Eli ezer, and borrowed also from Yerushalmi and Babli . The version of the Codex De Rossi begins with the passage which in the Midrash Jonah is found in connection with iii. 3 et seq. the extracts borrowed by the latter from Babli and Yerushalmi and inserted in the course of its commentary to this passage and later are missing in the Codex De Rossi. Then follows the end of part i. of the midrash ... more details
No footnotes date April 2009 Rabbinical Literature Midrash Abkir Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim , the extant remains of which consist of more than 50 excerpts contained in the Yal u and a number of citations in other works. It dealt, according to all accessible evidence, only with the first two books of the Pentateuch . Contents of the Midrash Name and scope Midrash Abkir derived its name from the formula with which all these homilies closed, according to the testimony of R. Eleazar of Worms in a manuscript commentary on the prayer book, and according to a codex of A. De Rossi . It is possible that these religious discourses were arranged ... of the Midrash Abkir the expositions are not confined to the first verses, the fact .... Angelology The language of this midrash is pure Hebrew , while its contents and discussions recall ... in the Midrash Abkir, descended to earth to hallow the name of God in a degenerate world ... that is referred to in the Torah. This passage of the midrash explains the words of Yoma 67b ... by Satan in 161 , who was successfully resisted by the pious hero, is simply the ordinary midrash, not the Midrash Abkir. The latter legend is found also in the Midrash of the Ten Commandments ... the Yal u , which, according to later editions, are derived from the Midrash Abkir, the source is indicated in the first edition merely by the word Midrash, as in 241, which discusses the legend of Usa , the patron of Egypt here Midrash apparently means Midrash Wayosha Jellinek, l.c. i. 39 et seq ... the Midrash Abkir in Yal . 234. Records of Midrash Abkir This midrash was at all events known to the author ... of R. Samuel of Speier , and the Yal u Re ubeni . The entire midrash was likewise known to Azariah ... of the midrash see especially Br ll, l.c. i. 146 Simon Chones , l.c. p. 27 on the legend of the angels ... M&search smaller 20midrash Jewish Encyclopedia article for Midrash Abkir JewishEncyclopedia Category ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash HaGadol or The Great Midrash Hebrew is an anonymous late 14th century compilation of aggadic midrashim on the Pentateuch taken from the two Talmuds and earlier Midrashim . In addition, it borrows quotations from the Targums and Kabbalistic writings Harv Oesterley ... to containing midrashic material that is not found elsewhere, the Midrash HaGadol contains what ... The existence of the Midrash HaGadol was first brought to the attention of Jewish scholarship ... as much as our Midrash Rabbah . It is worth noting that while this collection was new to European ... to Jerusalem and then to Berlin in 1878 by a certain Mr. Shapira, and this Midrash subsequently became ... of the Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts . File Midrash hagadol manuscript.png thumb left 350 px Manuscript page from Midrash HaGadol on Genesis. The Midrash Hagadol on Book of Genesis Genesis was first published by Solomon Schecter in 1902. A large portion of Midrash Hagadol on Book of Exodus Exodus was then published by David Zvi Hoffman in 1913. Midrash Hagadol on Book of Numbers was published ... then prevailing opinions regarding authorship of the Midrash HaGadol, variously that it is the work ... of the Halakha The Midrash HaGadol contains material from Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon , Sifre Zutta , Mekhilta ... sources. In addition, the midrash makes use of the work of Rambam and Alfasi , as well as many geonic writings Harv Strack Stemberger 1991 , but the sources are never cited a unique characteristic of this midrash .... A Midrash HaGadol that was brought from Aden is cited by Joseph Shalit Riqueti in Sefer Chochmat ... here. References Citation surname Fish given Solomon title Midrash Haggadol on the Pentateuch Numbers Hebrew publisher HaChinuch place London year 1957 URL . Citation surname Fish given S. title Midrash ... 1940 URL . Citation surname Higger given Michael Authorlink title The Midrash ha Gadol to Leviticus ... Strack given1 H.L. surname2 Stemberger Given2 G. title Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash publisher ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Esfah Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim , which as yet is known only from a few excerpts in Yal u and two citations in Sefer Raziel and Ha Ro ea . It receives its name from Num. xi. 16 Gather unto me Esfah li seventy men of the elders of Israel. In Yal . i, 736 is found a citation relating to the same verse, which cannot be traced to any other midrash, and is doubtless taken from Midrash Esfah. To this midrash may possibly be referred a passage in the Halakot Gedolot ed. Warsaw, p. 282b and a fragment on Num. xvii. 14, xx. 1 3, in Wertheimer, Batte Midrashot, iii. 8 10, which agrees in its concluding words with the excerpt in Yal ., Num. 763 on Num. xx. 3 found also ib. 262, on Book of Exodus Ex. xvii. 2, which begins with the same words . The name of the midrash shows that it must have begun with Num. xi. 16. The other excerpts in the Yal u from the Midrash Esfah, 737, 739, 742, 764, 773, and 845, are based on Num. xi. 24, xii. 3 7, xii. 12, xxi. 9, xxvi. 2 found also ib. 684, on Num. i. 2, which begins with the same words , and Deut. vi. 16 the extent of the midrash, however, can not be determined. The interesting extract in Yal ., Num. on Num. xi. 16 names the seventy elders in two of its recensions a third recension of this passage is furnished by a Vatican library manuscript and one of these versions concludes with a noteworthy statement which justifies the inference that the midrash was taught in the academy or anina Gaon by Rabbi Samuel , brother of Rabbi Phinehas . It would seem, therefore, that the midrash was composed in Babylon in the first half of the 9th century. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Zunz , G. V. pp. 279 et seq. Chones, Rab Pe alim, pp. 36 et seq. J.L. Rapoport , Kerem emed, vi. Weiss, Dor , iv. 41 ..., Batte Midrashot, Introduction, pp. 5 et seq. The excerpts from the Midrash Esfah have been collected ... Jewish Encyclopedia article for Midrash Esfah JewishEncyclopedia Category Minor midrashim Category Lost ... more details
File Midrash tehillim title.jpg thumb 250px Title page of Midrash Tehillim Prague, 1613 , from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia . Midrash Tehillim Hebrew or Midrash to Psalms is a haggadic midrash ... other passages. This midrash is called also Agadat Tehillim Rashi on Deut. xxxiii. 7 and many ... century it was called also Shocher Tov see Midrash Tehillim , ed. S. Buber , Introduction, pp. 35 et ... The true midrash covers only Psalms Ps. i. cxviii., and this is all that is found either in the manuscripts ... has been supplied by S. Buber , in his very full edition of the Midrash Tehillim, by printing ... Rabbah , and the Babylonian Talmud , so that the midrash in its present form covers the entire ... midrash Ps. i cxviii. cannot now be determined. The assumption that Rav Johanan bar Nafcha Rav Johanan ... pp. 3 4 . It may, on the contrary, be shown that the midrash is not the work of a single editor ... of the redaction of the midrash cannot be determined. Haggadic collections on the Psalms were made at a very ... possibly be assumed that the aggadah collections on the Psalms are identical with the present Midrash ..., that much material from those old collections is included in the present midrash. It must therefore ... a midrash to the Psalms was undertaken together with the other midrashim , homilies and comments ..., until the Midrash Tehillim finally took its present form. Rabbinical Literature Its definitive ... , without attempting to determine an exact date. But Zunz s assumption, that the midrash was compiled ... also in Yerushalmi comp . Buber, l.c. p. 32, note 131 . The midrash contains homilies on the Psalms ... in Buber , l.c. p. 10a, b . The midrash is prone to interpreting numbers, contributing likewise ... and myths The midrash contains a number of stories, legends, parables, proverbs, and sentences .... to Ps. xciii. 6 Buber, l.c. p. 208a, b . Among the proverbs which are found only in this midrash may ... Midr. Teh. to Ps. xxii. 20 Buber, l.c. p. 96b . Many a custom may be traced to this midrash ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Vayisau Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim . This small midrash, the heroic legend of the sons of Jacob, is based on Gen. xxxv. 5 and xxxvi. 6, and recounts the story of the wars of Jacob and his sons against the kings of the Amorites and against Esau and his army. The beginning of its version of the former story is as follows Our teachers said that although they did not pursue after them this time, yet seven years later all the kings of the Amorites gathered themselves together against the sons of Jacob. That the legends contained in the Wayissa u are very old may be inferred from the Book of Jubilees , xxxiv., xxxvii. et seq., and from the Testament of Judah Emil Kautzsch , Apokryphen, ii. 97 et seq., 102 et seq., 471 et seq. the midrash betrays its relationship to these old pseudepigraphical writings in many details. The war against the Amorites is treated at greater length in the Sefer ha Yashar , pericope Beshalla . The midrash itself is contained in Yal . , Gen. 133, and is mentioned by Na manides on Gen. xxxiv. 13, as Sefer Mil amot Bene Ya a ob. Harvtxt Strack Stemberger 1991 cite the opinion of G. Schmitt that the work was composed not later than the Bar Kokhba war . The text has been edited according to the Yal u by A. Jellinek B. H. iii. 1 5 , and by S. Chones in his edition of Rab Pe alim, pp. 153 et seq. , and by Charles in his edition of the Book of Jubilees , Appendix II., Oxford, 1895. Bibliography JewishEncyclopedia . The JE cites the following works Zunz , G. V. p. 145 Rab Pe alim, pp. 54 et seq. A. Jellinek , B. H. iii., pp. ix. et seq. TAMAR ALEXANDER and YOSEF DAN The Complete Midrash Vayi sa u FOLKLORE RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES VOLUME III Edited by ISSACHAR BEN AMI JERUSALEM 1972 Citation surname1 Strack given1 H.L. surname2 Stemberger Given2 G. title Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash ... view.jsp?artid 593&letter M&search midrash 20Gorion 1987 Jewish Encyclopedia article on Midrash ... more details
The Midrash im are mostly derived from, and based upon, the teachings of the Tannaim timeline ImageSize ... Literature Midrash halakha was the ancient Judaism Judaic Rabbinic literature rabbinic method .... Midrash more generally also refers to the non legal interpretation of the Tanakh Aggadah aggadic midrash . The term is applied also to the derivation of new laws, either by means of a correct ... hermeneutics hermeneutic rules. Terminology The phrase Midrash halakha was employed by Nachman Krochmal in his Moreh Nebuke ha Zeman, p. 163 , the Talmudic expression being Midrash Torah investigation ... of the halakha and the reason for its existence. In the Midrash halakha three divisions may be distinguished The midrash of the older halakha, that is, the midrash of the Sofer scribe Soferim and the Tannaim of the first two generations The midrash of the earlier halakha, or the midrash of the Tannaim of the three following generations The midrash of several younger tannaim and of a large ... a given rule was to be applied and what would be its consequences. The earlier Midrash, therefore ... the style of the older Midrash halakha. It translates the word ra ah Ex. xxi. 8 displease ..., in the case of otam and attem noted above, they intentionally omitted the . The Midrash of the earlier ... deductions, by combinations with other passages, etc. Hence its midrash differs from the simple ... passage and the halakha that explains it, or, more correctly, derives from it. Abstract and Midrash ... from&mdash that the name midrash applies, whereas one that, though ultimately based on the Bible ... between independent halakha and Midrash halakha is not sharply drawn. Many mishnayot single paragraph ... matter of a legal character, there was probably no halakhic midrash to this book. On the other hand, to each of the other four books of the Pentateuch there was a midrash from the school of R. Rabbi ... in great part extant. The halakhic midrash to Exodus from the school of R. Ishmael is the Mekilta ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Vayosha Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim , based on Book of Exodus Ex. xiv. 30 xv. 18. It is an exposition in the style of the later aggadah and seems to have been intended for Sabbat Shirah or for the seventh day of the Passover . Sources Entire sections of Midrash Vayosha are taken verbatim from the Tan uma , such as the passage on Book of Exodus Ex. xv. 3 from Tan., Bo, and on xv. 5 from u at, beginning. With the story in the exposition of Ex. xiv. 30, concerning Satan , who appeared before Abraham and Isaac as they went to the sacrifice, may be compared the addition in Tan. , Wayera, ed. Stettin, No. 24 Yal . , Ex. 98 99, end and Sefer haYashar midrash Sefer ha Yashar , end of pericope Wayera . The midrash on Ex. xv. 2, 7 also contains extracts from the Chronicle of Moses , the passage on Usa, the genius of Egypt, agreeing word for word with the excerpt in Yal . , 241. Here the first edition has merely Midrash, while other editions give the Midrash Abkir as the source, although it is doubtful whether this aggadah ever occurred in that work. The sections begin for the most part with the words ameru akamim, though Rabbi Joshua ben Levi and Rabbi Samuel b. Na mani are occasionally given as the authors. Eschatology In the exposition of xv. 18 on the sorrows and the redemption in the Messianic time, the terrible figure of King Armilus is described, and it is said that he will slay the Messiah ben Joseph Messiah of the race of Joseph , but will himself be slain by the Jewish Messiah Messiah who is the son of David comp. Suk. 52a God will then gather together the scattered remnant of Israel and hold the final judgment and the wonderful beauty of a new world full of joy and happiness is revealed. Editions The Midrash Wayosha was first published at Constantinople in 1519 Metz, 1849, and elsewhere , and has been reprinted by A. Jellinek B. H. i. 35 37 . Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Zunz , G. V. p. 282 Rab Pe alim, p. 55 ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Temurah Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim , consisting of three chapters. It develops the view that God in His wisdom and might has created all things on earth as contrasted pairs which mutually supplement each other. Life is known only as opposed to death, and death as opposed to life comp. Tao Te Ching , chap. 2 and, in like manner, if all were foolish or wise, or rich or poor, it would not be known that they were foolish or wise, or rich or poor. Therefore God created man and woman, beauty and deformity, fire and water, iron and wood, light and darkness, heat and cold, food and famine, drink and thirst, walking and lameness, sight and blindness, hearing and deafness, sea and land, speech and dumbness, activity and repose, pain and pleasure, joy and sorrow, health and sickness, and the like. In ch. iii. the antitheses given in Eccl. iii. 1 et seq. are enumerated and are paralleled with Psalms Ps. cxxxvi. Ch. i., which contains an interesting anthropological passage, and ch. ii. begins with pseudepigraphical interpretations ascribed by the midrash to Rabbi Ishmael and Rabbi Akiba the latter appear, consequently, as joint authors of the midrash. According to A. Jellinek , the Midrash Temurah was composed in the first half of the 13th century, since it drew upon Abraham ibn Ezra Ibn Ezra and upon Galen s dialogue on the soul, even though it is cited by Me iri and Abraham Abulafia . It was first edited by Chaim Joseph David Azulai Azulai Leghorn, 1786 , being appended to the second part of his Shem ha Gedolim and it has been reprinted by Jellinek B. H. i. 106 114 . Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography Zunz , G. V. p. 118 Rab Pe alim, pp. 123 et seq. A. Jellinek , B. H. i., pp. xx. et seq. External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 593&letter M&search Al 20Yithallel 1955 Jewish Encyclopedia article for Smaller Midrashim JewishEncyclopedia Category Minor midrashim ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Hashkem , also known as Midrash ve Hizhir is a purely haggadic midrash on the Pentateuch . It took its halakic portion from the Talmudic sources, the baraita on the erection of the Tabernacle , the She eltot of A a of Shab a , and the Halakot Gedolot , the She eltot also being arranged according to the one year cycle and being in its minor portions especially dependent on Tan uma . Publication Details The first part of the Munich codex, after which the work was published by I. M. Freimann , under the title We Hizhir. part i., Leipsic, 1873 part ii., Warsaw, 1880 , is doubtless somewhat defective. It begins with a haggadic passage, which, belonging to Book of Exodus Ex. viii. 16 Wa yomer hashkem ba boker , is found also in the earlier editions of Tan uma ed. Stettin, s.v. Wa era, p. 14 . Contents The work was called Hashkem after the second word in this introductory sentence. In the editions as well as in the codex this first passage, as well as the beginning of the following haggadic passage to Book of Exodus Ex. ix. 22, included in both Tan umas in the pericope Va eira Wa era , is erroneously combined with a passage to Ex. x. 21 which also, perhaps, was taken from Tan uma as belonging to the pericope Bo parsha Bo The midrash was called by other authors We Hizhir, after the standing formula We hizhir ha adosh, baruk Hu, with which nearly all the pericopes in the midrash as now extant begin, and which is occasionally found at the beginning of a new section in the middle of the pericope. No one, however, quotes Hashkem and We Hizhir together as two different works. The halakic expositions refer in Bo to the tefillin in Beshalla to the rest on the Shabbat Sabbath and the dine erub in Yitro to the commandments connected with the Ten Commandments ..., ed. Buber part ii., pp. 34b et seq. from Wayi ra Rabbah , ix. p. 128b from Sifra , etc. The midrash .... Zeit. 1875, pp. 95 et seq. . The fact that some passages quoted by the old authors from the Midrash ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Eras of the Halakha Midrash Abba Gorion is a late midrash to the Book of Esther , and may be considered one of the smaller midrashim . The name derives from that of the tannaim tanna Abba Gorion of Sidon , who is one of the authorities mentioned in this midrash. External links http books.google.com books?id bWwpAAAAYAAJ Sifre de agadeta Judaism stub Category Midrashim he yi ... more details
SBMP Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program , or BMP for short, is the name of one the four Jewish studies Judaic Studies tracks offered at Yeshiva University . External links http www.yu.edu ujs page.asp?sbmp Irving I. Stone Beit Midrash Program Yeshiva stub Category Yeshiva University ... more details
distinguish Midrash Shmuel Yeshiva Rabbinical Literature Midrash Samuel Hebrew , a aggadic midrash on the books of Samuel , is quoted for the first time by Rashi in his commentary on I Sam. ii. 30. In his Ha Pardes ed. Constantinople, p. 24b Rashi again quotes from this midrash xvii. 1 ed. S. Buber , p. 48a , saying that it is entitled Et la Asot la Adonai it probably derived this name from Psalms Ps. cxix. 126, with which it begins. The midrash is entitled also Aggadat Shmu el Rashi, in his commentary on Sukkah talmud Sukkah 53b, s.v. Ahaspa Tos. So ah 42b, s.v. Me ah et al. , and the name Sho er ob has been erroneously given to it in the editions of Zolkiev, 1800, and Lemberg, 1808 and 1850 the error is because in the Venice edition of 1546 the midrash was printed together with the midrash on the Psalms , the title of the latter, Sho er ob, being taken to refer to both. Contents of the midrash The midrash contains haggadic interpretations and homilies on the books ... arranged the sentences in the sequence of the Scripture passages to which they refer. The midrash ... of the Halakha The midrash is divided into 32 chapters. Ch. i. xxiv. contain interpretations and homilies ... Rabbah , Shir ha Shirim Rabbah , ohelet Rabbah , Ekah Rabbah , Ruth Rabbah , Midrash Esther , Midrash ... that all the amoraim mentioned in this midrash resided in the Land of Israel , justifies the assumption ... A manuscript of this midrash is in the Parma Library Codex De Rossi, No. 563 . The first printed edition ... of the midrash. Citation surname1 Strack given1 H.L. surname2 Stemberger Given2 G. title Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash publisher T&T Clark place Edinburgh year 1991 ISBN 978 0800625245 External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 132&letter S&search midrash 20samuel Jewish Encyclopedia article on Midrash Samuel , by Wilhelm Bacher and Jacob Zallel Lauterbach . JewishEncyclopedia DEFAULTSORT Midrash Shmuel Aggadah Category Aggadic Midrashim Category Books of Samuel de Midrasch ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Eleh Ezkerah lang he is an aggadic midrash , one of the smaller midrashim , which receives its name from the fact that a seli ah for the Yom Kippur Day of Atonement , which treats the same subject and begins with the words Eleh ezkerah, recounts the execution of ten famous teachers of the Mishnah in the time of the persecution by Hadrian see Ten Martyrs . The same event is related in a very ancient source, Ekah Rabbati on Book of Lamentations Lam. ii. 2, ed. S. Buber , p. 50b comp. also Midr. Teh. on Psalms Ps. ix. 13, ed. Buber, p. 44b . The version in Eleh Ezkerah File Eleh ezkerah.jpg thumb left Page from Midrash Eleh Ezkerah , Constantinople ? , 1620. According to the Midrash Eleh Ezkerah, a Roman emperor commanded the execution of the ten sages of Israel to expiate the guilt of the sons of Jacob , who had sold their brother Joseph Hebrew Bible Joseph a crime which, according to Book of Exodus Ex. xxi. 16, had to be punished with death. The names of the martyrs are given here, as in the seli ah already mentioned varying in part from the Eichah Rabbah Eicha Rabba and the Midrash Tehillim , as follows R. Simeon b. Gamaliel R. Ishmael the high priest Akiva ben Joseph R. Akiba R. anina b. Teradion R. Judah b. Baba R. Judah b. Dama R. uzpit R. Hananiah b. akinai R. Jeshebeab R. Eleazar b. Shammua Although this midrash employs other sources, borrowing its introduction from the Midrash Konen , and the account of the conversation of Rabbi Ishmael with the angels in heaven probably from the Hekalot , it forms, nevertheless, a coherent work. It was edited, on the basis of a Hamburg codex, by A. Jellinek Leipsic, 1853, and in his B. H. ii. 64 72 , and, according to another manuscript, by S. Chones , in his Rab Pe alim pp. 157 160 . A second and a third recension of the midrash were edited, on the basis of manuscript sources, in B. H. vi. 19 35 , and a fourth is contained in the Spanish liturgical work Bet Ab Leghorn, 1877 . According ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Leku Nerannena Hebrew , is one of the smaller midrashim and is cited in the Ma zor Vitry 426, p. 334 . A few fragments of the work are still preserved, from which the midrash appears to have been a homily pesi ta for the Feast of anukkah . Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography A. Epstein , Ha o er, i. 65 et seq. External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 593&letter M&search Al 20Yithallel 1955 Jewish Encyclopedia article for Smaller Midrashim JewishEncyclopedia Category Minor midrashim Category Lost Jewish texts ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Eser Galiyyot Hebrew is one of the smaller midrashim and treats of the ten exiles which have befallen the Jews , counting four exiles under Sennacherib , four under Nebuchadnezzar , one under Vespasian , and one under Hadrian . It contains also many parallels to the Seder Olam , ch. xxii. et seq. A citation of the commentator R. Hillel on Sifre , ii. 43 ed. Friedmann, p. 82a justifies the inference that the Midrash Eser Galiyyot originally stood at the end of the Seder Olam and it is also possible that Abraham ibn David likewise drew material from it, for an older edition of his Sefer ha abbalah includes this midrash. The aggadah at the beginning of the midrash, to the effect that the Jews had suffered ten exiles, was cited, with the formula Our teachers have taught, by R. ema Gaon in his letter addressed to the community of Kairwan in the latter part of the 9th century. The midrash has been edited by A. Jellinek B. H. iv. 133 136 and, with valuable notes, by Gr nhut Sefer ha Li u im, iii. 2 22 . A later recension which cares little about haggadic chronology, but much about haggadic embellishment, was printed in B. H. v. 113 116. Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography A. Jellinek , B. H. iv., p. xii. v., p. xxxv. Gr nhut, ib. 5 13 Br ll, in Ben Chananja, 1866, p. 125 A. Epstein , Eldad ha Dani, pp. 7, 17 Ratner, Introduction to the Seder Olam , pp. 49, 123, and notes on the same work, pp. 48a, 51a, 56a. External links http www.jewishencyclopedia.com view.jsp?artid 593&letter M&search Al 20Yithallel 1955 Jewish Encyclopedia article for Smaller Midrashim JewishEncyclopedia Category Minor midrashim ... more details
Rabbinical Literature Midrash Petirat Moshe Hebrew or Midrash on the Death of Moses is one of the smaller midrashim . This midrash describes in great detail the last acts of Moses and his death, at which the angels and God Himself were present. There are several recensions of it, dating to between 7th and 11th centuries Harv Strack Stemberger 1991 . The first, published at Constantinople in 1516 Venice , 1544, and elsewhere also in Adolf Jellinek , B. H. i. 115 129 , begins with a brief exegesis by R. Samuel Na mani and R. Tan uma of the first verse of the pericope We zot ha berakah Deut. xxxiii. 1, xxxiv. 12 , closing with its last verses, and doubtless intended for Sim at Torah . Contents of the Midrash The real content of the midrash is a haggadic treatment of Deut. xxxi. 14 et seq., supplemented by an exegesis of Deut. iii. 23 et seq., and is filled with somewhat tedious dialogues between God and Moses, who is represented as unwilling to die. All his tears and entreaties were in vain, however for God commanded all the princes of heaven to close the gates of prayer. In the last days of his life, until the 7th of Adar , Moses interpreted the Torah to Children of Israel ... of the additions in Deut. R. xi. and the second recension on the original version. Early in the midrash ..., whose soul at length is taken in the kiss of death. Other recensions Large portions of this midrash ... also, combined in the same manner, in Yal . , Deut. 940 on Deut. xxxi. 14 , where the Midrash Pe irat ... of death comp. Pesi . p. 199b Deut. R. xi. 5 . A long citation from the beginning of the midrash ... with the original midrash can not be determined but what follows the missing portion does not differ ... of the midrash was published by Gilbert Gaulmyn Paris, 1692 , together with a Latin language ... Given2 G. title Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash publisher T&T Clark place Edinburgh year 1991 ... smaller 20midrash Jewish Encyclopedia article for Midrash Petirat Moshe JewishEncyclopedia Category ... more details
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