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    Aggadah (redirect from Aggada)
    Aggadah (Hebrew: אַגָּדָה‎ ʾAggāḏā or הַגָּדָה‎ Haggāḏā; Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אַגָּדְתָא ʾAggāḏəṯāʾ; "tales, fairytale, lore") is the non-legalistic...
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    (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception. Vol. 19: Midrash and Aggada – Mourning. de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/ebr.molechmoloch. ISBN 978-3-11-031336-9...
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    Rabbinic literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to...
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    Shabbat (Hebrew: שַׁבָּת, lit. "Sabbath") is the first tractate of Seder Moed ("Order of Appointed Times") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. The tractate...
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  • Supreme Court of ancient Israel. (Sanhedrin 1:4.) According to the Jewish Aggada, there are 70 perspectives ("faces") to the Torah (Numbers Rabbah 13:15)...
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    even be placed around a finger. Some early Jewish commentators (such as Aggadas Bereishis) write that Joseph's coat (given to him by Jacob) was actually...
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  • feature in aggadic portions of non-mystical rabbinic literature. In such aggada the letters are often given anthropomorphic qualities and depicted as speaking...
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  • the view of human "sons of God" were Saadia, Rashi, Lekah Tob, Midrash Aggada, Joseph Bekor Shor, Abraham ibn Ezra, Maimonides, David Kimhi, Nachmanides...
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  • Mesopotamian Talmud", in Herman, Geoffrey; Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. (eds.), The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World, Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic...
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    Mesopotamian Talmud", in Herman, Geoffrey; Rubenstein, Jeffrey L. (eds.), The Aggada of the Bavli and Its Cultural World, Providence, Rhode Island: Brown Judaic...
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    Commandment", Prague 1600), on Hanukkah Chiddushei Aggadot ("Novellae on the Aggada", the narrative portions of the Talmud), discovered in the 20th century...
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  • Essays study his thought through the lenses of jewish mysticism, philosophy, aggada, halakha, poetry, sciences, society, Zionism and messianism. Lawrence Fine...
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    are in Greek and Old Slavonic. In folktale manner in the style of Jewish aggada, it elaborates upon the Book of Job making Job a king in Egypt. Like many...
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  • students in the morning, afternoon lectures to the entire student body, Aggada-style drashos on shabbos, as well as a variety of other lectures to a range...
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    Julius Eisenstein (1915). Otzar HaMidrashim. Mishor. p. 557. https://www.sefaria.org/Otzar_Midrashim%2C_Aggada_of_Shimon_Kippa%2C_Introduction?lang=bi...
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  • Isaac Hirsch Weiss, a five volume history of the Oral Law, Halakha and Aggada, from Biblical times until the composition of the Shulchan Aruch. Mevo Hatalmud...
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    commentary on the Talmud, considered a basic resource in understanding the Aggada (narrative sections of the Talmud). The responsum (Hebrew: She'elot U-Teshuvot)...
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  • published a book titled, Fresh Fruit & Vintage Wine: Ethics and Wisdom of the Aggada through KTAV Publishing House. The book focuses on aggadic portions of the...
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    and Ksuvim and to learn mishna and midrash and gemara and halacha and aggada, because it says, "The precepts of God are right, gladdening the heart"...
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    introduction dealing with the historical development of both Halakha and Aggada, and a critical commentary entitled Middot Soferim. After the publication...
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  • Israel Prize in Talmudic research, for his work on interpreting midrash and aggada. "Daf Yomi Archive". www.etzion.org.il. Archived from the original on 2015-03-24...
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    Horayot (section Aggada)
    the previous two chapters includes narrative stories about the sages, or Aggada. Horayot 10a tells the story of rabbi Gamliel and Rabbi Yehoshua on a boat...
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  • main arguments in the gemara, omitting most of the non-legal sections (Aggada) as well as sections that R. Chananel considered too simple to warrant further...
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    to halacha. Imrei Daas - a compilation of Torah thoughts on Halacha and Aggada, which was lost during World War II. The book contained an approbation from...
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    Composition: The Contribution of the Bavli Redactors (Stammaim) to the Aggada. Mohr Siebeck. p. 384. ISBN 9783161486920. חשוקי חמד, Kiddushin. p. 50 (in...
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    rather than as one large intertwined work in the style of the Halacha and Aggada found in the Talmud; the Maharsha called upon future publishers to combine...
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  • century. Kook's mystical concern for unity between false dichotomies of Aggada and Halakha, sacred and secular, reflects Hasidic Divine Immanence in all...
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  • פרד״א (Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer) - lit. Sayings of Rabbi Eliezer; a book of Aggada and Midrash by Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. See also פרדר״א פשט רמז דרוש...
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    its definition is: "Everything written by the sages, that is not law" The Aggada deals with stories and parables, that add a wide layer of interpretation...
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  • Jewish mysticism, unsystematised philosophical thought was expressed in the Aggada, as well as highly anthropomorphic narrative depictions accentuating the...
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