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    Pesikta Rabbati (Hebrew: פסיקתא רבתי P'siqta Rabbita, "The Larger P'siqta") is a collection of aggadic midrash (homilies) on the Pentateuchal and prophetic...
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  • Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, published in 1868 and 1962 Pesikta Rabbati, composed around 845 CE The Pesikta Zutarta, also called Midrash Lekah Tov, by Tobiah...
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    homilies of the Pesikta have been taken over, or sometimes worked over, into the Pesikta Rabbati; there are also a number of Pesikta homilies in the Tanhuma...
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    Evel Rabbati (Hebrew: אבל רבתי, "greater [tractate of] mourning") is one of the later or minor tractates which in the editions of the Babylonian Talmud...
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    The Pesikta, a compilation of homilies on special Pentateuchal and Prophetic lessons (early 8th century), in two versions: Pesikta Rabbati Pesikta de-Rav...
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    or scarlet-orange tinge is alluded to in an early rabbinic source, Pesikta Rabbati, where tola'at shani is said to be "neither red, nor green," but of...
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    Midrash Hashkem Midrash Rabba Midrash Shmuel Midrash Tehillim Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Pesikta Rabbati Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer Seder Olam Rabbah Seder Olam Zutta...
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  • Rabbi Nathan, Abot 4 Sanhedrin 32b Pesikta Rabbati (n.d.). Meir Ish Shalom of Vienna (ed.). Midrash Pesikta Rabbati (in Hebrew). Israel: not identified...
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    York, 1995. ISBN 0-8246-0256-0 . Sandalfon at JewishEncyclopedia.com Pesikta Rabbati 20:3 "Who is Metatron" Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine at...
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    such collections, as well as to the Pesikta Rabbati; in section 39 the entire exposition of the Pesikta Rabbati lesson Ki Tissa (Exodus 30:11) has been...
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    in two different versions in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. Evel Rabbati (Hebrew: אבל רבתי – Elaboration on Mourning). Contains laws and customs...
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    they had been married for ten years, he also took Peninnah as a wife (Pesikta Rabbati 43). The midrash explains that Elkanah was compelled to marry Peninnah...
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    introductions found either in the earlier midrashim—Bereshit Rabbah, Pesikta Rabbati, Lamentations Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbah, Shir haShirim Rabbah—or in...
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    Tanhuma Ki Tisa 16:2, Korach 12:1, Vayelech 1:1; Pesikta Rabbati 3:1; Lekach Tov, Genesis 49:8; Kallah Rabbati 10:14, etc. Josephus, Against Apion, 1:8; also...
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  • : 86  Pesikta Rabbati 15.14/15 likewise the four craftsmen are listed as Elijah, the King Messiah, Melchizedek, and the Anointed for War.: 86  Pesikta Rabbati...
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    other midrashim, as, for example, all the Midrash Rabbot, Pesiḳta de-Rab Kahana, Pesikta Rabbati, and in the midrashim to Book of Samuel, Proverbs, and Psalms...
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    reformation, and also keeping within the bounds His own merciful nature. The Pesikta Rabbati has a similar story: A king had a son who had gone astray from his...
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    midrashim. The midrash is older than Pesikta Rabbati, since the latter borrowed passages directly from it. As the Pesikta Rabbati was composed about 845 C.E.,...
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    Targums, Maimonides, and Kabbalistic writings, Avot of Rabbi Natan, Pesikta Rabbati, Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Pirke Rabbi Eliezer, Mishnat Rabbi Eliezer [b. Rabbi...
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    Midrash Rabbah, the Midrash Tanhuma, and the two Pesiktot (Pesikta De-Rav Kahana or Pesikta Rabbati), the Midrash on Psalms, the Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, and...
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    one of the oldest works of midrash, along with Genesis Rabbah and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana. The midrash is quoted, perhaps for the first time, by Chananel...
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    rabbot on Pentateuch (with the exception of Exodus Rabbah), Pesiḳta[which?], Pesikta Rabbati, Medrash Yelammedenu, Tanḥuma, Debarim Zuṭa, Midrashim Abba...
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    Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel Targum...
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  • OCLC 970925649. Pesikta de-Rav Kahana (1949). Salomon Buber (ed.). Pesikta de-Rav Kahana. New York: Mekitze Nirdamim. OCLC 122787256. Pesikta Rabbati (n.d.)....
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    haggadic commentaries to single books of the Bible, as Bereshit Rabbah, Eikah Rabbati, the midrashim to the other Megillot, etc. See Midrash for more details...
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    Repentance" appears in such early sources as the Jerusalem Talmud, the Pesikta Rabbati, and the writings of the Geonim, and has been the predominant title...
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    Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel Targum...
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    18b; Avodah Zarah 8a; Avot of Rabbi Natan 1; Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer Pesikta Rabbati 23; Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer 20; similarly, Pesachim 54a Genesis Rabba...
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    Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel Targum...
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    Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel Targum...
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