The Sages said the midrash of Sifra Aharei Mot 8: 8 – 9, " What did they do?

A halakhic midrash to Leviticus from the school of R. Akiba exists under the name " Sifra " or " Torat Kohanim.

In classical rabbinical literature, lifnei iver is seen as a figuratively expressed prohibition against misleading people ; the Sifra ( a midrash from the time of the Mishnah ) argues that since the recipient of advice would be metaphorically blind in regard to its accuracy, they would metaphorically stumble if the advice was damaging or otherwise bad.

* " HaTorah vehaMitzva ", analytical and innovative commentary on the Pentateuch and the midrash halakha ( Warsaw, 1874 – 80 ), including the linguistic guide Ayelet ha-Shachar on differences between similar terms in Hebrew ;

The early modern responsa literature shows that Jewish students smoked in their batei midrash – or study halls – and synagogues.

Though the same scholars recognise that 1 Enoch 1: 9 itself is a midrash of the words of Moses " he came from the ten thousands of holy ones " from Deuteronomy 33: 2.

On this verse a midrash on the book of Mishle ( English Proverbs ) states that " These two verses stem from an independent book which existed, but was suppressed!

" Another ( possibly earlier ) midrash, Ta ' ame Haserot Viyterot, states that this section actually comes from the book of prophecy of Eldad and Medad.

The midrash Ruth Rabbah states that being a pious man, Boaz on his first meeting with Ruth perceived her conscientiousness in picking up the grain, as she strictly observed the rules prescribed by the Law.

The midrash states that the fruit was grape, or squeezed grapes ( perhaps again alluding to wine ).

The midrash Genesis Rabbah states it was when Sarah was in Pharaoh's harem that he gave her his daughter Hagar as slave, saying: " It is better that my daughter should be a slave in the house of such a woman than mistress in another house ".

The earliest authenticated verified version of this Hebrew midrash was printed in Venice in 1625 and the introduction refers to an earlier 1552 " edition " in Naples of which neither trace or other mention has been found.

Midrash more generally also refers to the " non-legal " interpretation of the Tanakh ( aggadic midrash ).

The Hebrew cognate midrasha also connotes the meaning of a place of learning ; the related term midrash literally refers to study or learning, but has acquired mystical and religious connotations.

In reference to a passage in the Books of Samuel which refers to a saying about the blind and the lame, Rashi quotes a midrash which argues that the Jebusites had two statues in their city, with their mouths containing the words of the covenant between Abraham and the Jebusites ; one figure, depicting a blind person, represented Isaac, and the other, depicting a lame person, representing Jacob.

According to the midrash, Joseph would have been immediately executed by the sexual assault charge against him by Potiphar ’ s wife.

Exodus says each day one omer of manna was gathered per family member ( about 3. 64 litres ), and may imply this was regardless of how much effort was put into gathering it ; a midrash attributed to Rabbi Tanhuma remarks that although some were diligent enough to go into the fields to gather manna, others just lay down lazily and caught it with their outstretched hands.

According to the Talmud, manna was found near the homes of those with strong belief in God, and far from the homes of those with doubts ; indeed, one classical midrash says that manna was intangible to Gentiles, as it would inevitably slip from their hands.

It is to a law stated in this form — i. e., together with the Biblical passage it derives from — that the name midrash applies, whereas one that, though ultimately based on the Bible, is cited independently as an established statute is called a halakha.

On the other hand, to each of the other four books of the Pentateuch there was a midrash from the school of R. Akiba and one from the school of R. Ishmael, and these midrashim are still in great part extant.

According to one Jewish tradition reported by the midrash, Jerusalem was founded by Abraham's forefathers Shem and Eber.

However, there are sections, especially in the beginning of the midrash, in which only one or a few verses at a time are expounded.

It is possible that the present Genesis Rabba is a combination of two midrashim of unequal proportions, and that the 29 sections of the first Torah portion — several of which expound only one or a few verses — constitute the extant or incomplete material of a Genesis Rabba that was laid out on a much larger and more comprehensive scale than the midrash to the other Torah portions.

The work may have received its name, " Genesis Rabbah ," from that larger midrash at the beginning of Genesis, unless that designation was originally used to distinguish this midrash from the shorter and older one, which was ascribed to Rabbi Hoshayah.

According to a Jewish midrash, one of these idols, in the shape of a dove, was later recovered by the Samaritans, and used in their worship on Mount Gerizim.

He is best known for his midrashic scholarship, his work is one of the two standard midrash compilations from the period ( the other is Adolph Jellinek's Bet Ha-Midrasch ).

According to a midrash, one of these Idols, in the shape of a dove, was later recovered by the Samaritans, and used in their worship on Mount Gerizim.

::“ Arguments for and against God's just judgment resemble those found in Plutarch's De sera numinis vindicta ” the delays of divine vengeance “ as well as in the targumic midrash about Cain and Abel in Gen ” “ 4.

According to the midrash Canticles Rabbah, it was Ezekiel whom the three pious men, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah ( also called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the Bible ) asked for advice as to whether they should resist Nebuchadnezzar's command and choose death by fire rather than worship his idol.

Kaddish was not originally said by mourners, but rather by the rabbis when they finished giving sermons on Sabbath afternoons and later, when they finished studying a section of midrash or aggadah.

Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi ( the Jerusalem Talmud ) and his six-volume ( plus a one-volume index ) The Legends of the Jews, ( 1909 ) which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of midrash research.

The original purpose of midrash was to resolve problems in the interpretation of difficult passages of the text of the Hebrew Bible, using Rabbinic principles of hermeneutics & philology to align them with the religious & ethical values of religious teachers.

This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century ; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi Akiva.

The midrash on Exodus that was known to the Amoraim is not the same as our current mekhilta ; their version was only the core of what later grew into the present form.

Nevertheless, an apocryphal midrash claims that the tribe was deported by the Babylonians to the Kingdom of Aksum ( in what is now Ethiopia ), to a place behind the dark mountains.

During the 70-year exile in Babylon, Jewish houses of assembly ( known in Hebrew as a beit knesset or in Greek as a synagogue ) and houses of prayer ( Hebrew Beit Tefilah ; Greek προσευχαί, proseuchai ) were the primary meeting places for prayer, and the house of study ( beit midrash ) was the counterpart for the synagogue.

When the Jewish midrash ( explanations of the Bible ) were being composed, it was held that God originally produced a male and a female leviathan, but lest in multiplying the species should destroy the world, he slew the female, reserving her flesh for the banquet that will be given to the righteous on the advent of the Messiah ( B.

A midrash relates that the prophet Elisha did not have nocturnal emissions any time he was a guest in someone's home, and attributes this control as being an attribute of holiness.

Charles proposed the author of Jubilees may have been a Pharisee and that Jubilees was the product of the midrash which had already been at work in the Old Testament Chronicles.

In the midrash, the selling of Joseph was part of God's divine plan for him to save his tribes.

A midrash asked, how many times was Joseph sold?

According to the midrash Genesis Rabba, Abraham's father, Terah, was both an idol manufacturer and worshipper.

As Genesis contains very little matter of a legal character, there was probably no halakhic midrash to this book.