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    Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah (Hebrew: שיר השירים רבה) is an aggadic midrash on Song of Songs, quoted by Rashi under the title "Midrash Shir ha-Shirim". It is...
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  • Vayechi, 14 Shir haShirim Rabbah 1:9, end; compare Leviticus Rabbah 35:7 Genesis Rabbah 60:3; Leviticus Rabbah 37:4; compare Genesis Rabbah 19:6; Pesikta...
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    "Midrash Rabbah." At the same time, the midrash to Song of Songs only was published by S. Schechter, under the title "Agadat Shir haShirim". Shir haShirim Zutta...
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    Leviticus Rabbah, Vayikrah Rabbah, or Wayiqra Rabbah is a homiletic midrash to the Biblical book of Leviticus (Vayikrah in Hebrew). It is referred to by...
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    Deuteronomy Rabbah (tenth century) Shir HaShirim Rabbah (Song of Songs) (probably before the middle of ninth century) Ruth Rabbah, (probably before the middle...
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    Genesis Rabbah (Hebrew: בְּרֵאשִׁית רַבָּה, romanized: Bərēšīṯ Rabbā) is a religious text from Judaism's classical period, probably written between 300...
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    in the earlier midrashim—Bereshit Rabbah, Pesikta Rabbati, Lamentations Rabbah, Leviticus Rabbah, Shir haShirim Rabbah—or in the collections from which...
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    see also Moed Kattan 9a; Genesis Rabbah 35:3, Targum to Shir Hashirim 4:1; Shabbat 14b Sanhedrin 99b Shir HaShirim Rabbah 2:13; Pesachim 94a; Sanhedrin 96b...
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    Numbers Rabbah (or Bamidbar Rabbah in Hebrew) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical...
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    reflection of God, as if seen in a poor mirror. According to the midrash Shir HaShirim Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and...
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    Midrash Rabba (redirect from Midrash Rabbah)
    Rabbot"), to which the midrashim most in use in connection with prayers—to Shir HaShirim, Ruth, Esther, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes—were subsequently added...
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    (Hebrew: כלה רבתי – Great Bride). An elaboration of the previous. Derekh Eretz Rabbah (Hebrew: דרך ארץ רבה) "Derekh Eretz" literally means "the way of the world...
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    Exodus Rabbah (Hebrew: שמות רבה, Shemot Rabbah) is the midrash to Exodus. Exodus Rabbah is almost purely aggadic in character. It contains 52 sections...
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    10b Talmud tractate Megillah 15a Leviticus Rabbah 10 Hebrew-English Bible Isaiah 6:5 Shir haShirim Rabbah 1:6 ""Hezekiah". Jewish Encyclopedia". www.jewishencyclopedia...
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    romanized: Ēkhā Rabbāh) is a midrashic commentary to the Book of Lamentations. It is one of the oldest works of midrash, along with Genesis Rabbah and the Pesikta...
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    Sefer haYashar (ספר הישר) is a medieval Hebrew midrash, also known as the Toledot Adam and Divrei haYamim heArukh. The Hebrew title "Sefer haYashar" might...
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    well as Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah and Kohelet Rabbah) was one of the sources of the Yelammedenu, Devarim Rabbah, Pesikta Rabbati, and Shemot Rabbah, being...
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    beautiful tefillin.[citation needed] Other Midrash teachings (e.g. Shir HaShirim Rabbah 1.15) offer the same idea. This idea is expanded upon in the Babylonian...
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    Esther Rabbah (Hebrew: אסתר רבה) is a midrash to the Book of Esther. From its plan and scope, it is apparently an incomplete collection of the rich aggadic...
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    Leib HaCohen Heller Derech Tevunot and Sefer HaHigayon - R. Moshe Chaim Luzzatto Mevo haTalmud - Shmuel HaNagid "Gemara", Jewish Encyclopedia "Gemara"...
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    Maimonides' Introduction to Mishneh Torah, the barayata were compiled by Hoshaiah Rabbah and Bar Kappara, although no other compilation was passed down that was...
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  • Azzai died and ben Zoma became demented, but the Jerusalem Talmud, Shir HaShirim Rabbah, and the hekhalot literature record the reverse. The Hebrew word...
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    Sirach Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah Devarim Zutta Pesikta Rabbati Midrash Shmuel Midrash Proverbs Ruth Rabbah Baraita of Samuel...
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    HaGadol Midrash Hashkem Midrash Rabba Midrash Shmuel Midrash Tehillim Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Pesikta Rabbati Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer Seder Olam Rabbah Seder...
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    Ginsburgh (2006), p. 31. Dan & Kiener (1986). Megillah 14a, Shir HaShirim Rabbah 4:22, Ruth Rabbah 1:2. Kaplan (2011), pp. 44–48. Yehuda Ashlag; Preface to...
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    aggadic material collected from various sources as late as the Midrash Rabbah as well as earlier material from the Talmud. So it is a combination of a...
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    dating to the 6th to 7th centuries BCE. The Mishnah was redacted by Judah ha-Nasi probably in Beit Shearim or Sepphoris between the ending of the second...
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    in Wertheimer, Batte Midrashot, i. 9, 22 et seq. Compare Shir haShirim Rabbah to Shir haShirim 1:3  This article incorporates text from a publication now...
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  • but was preserved only by the Ethiopian Jewish community, based on Shir HaShirim Rabbah 7:4: Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi said: By rights, the Eighth Day of Assembly...
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    New York : Bigelow, Brown. Sotah 33a; Jerusalem Talmud Sotah 4:3; Shir haShirim Rabbah 38c; Tosefta Sotah 13 Nazir 4b; Nedarim 9b; Yerushalmi Nedarim 36d;...
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