" This doctrine, however, becomes quite intelligible in view of the following ancient Midrash.

It has been said that the Midrash already speaks of the spirit ( πνεῦμα ) of the first Adam or of the Messiah without, however, absolutely identifying Adam and Messiah.

Ezekiel, like Jeremiah, is said by Talmud and Midrash to have been a descendant of Joshua by his marriage with the proselyte Rahab.

After collaborating with a Jewish convert to assist him with the Hebrew, Justin published an attack on Judaism based upon a no-longer-extant text of a Midrash.

This is in contrast with the Midrash halakha, works in which the sources of the traditionally received laws are identified in the Tanakh, often by linking a verse to a halakha.

The Midrash linking a verse to a halakha will often function as a proof of a law's authenticity ; a correct elucidation of the Torah carries with it the support of the halakhah, and often the reason for the rule's existence ( although many rabbinical laws have no direct Biblical source ).

Relatedly, the Mishnah does not generally cite a scriptural basis for its laws ; connecting the Mishnaic law with the Torah law is also undertaken by the later Midrash ( and Talmuds ).

In the Midrash ( Tanchuma Lekh Lekhah 6 ) and later Rabbinical literature, Amraphel was identified with Nimrod ( this is also attested to in the 11th Chapter of the Book of Jasher ).

According to the Midrash, Sisera engaged in sexual intercourse with Jael seven times, but because she was attempting to exhaust him in order to kill him, her sin was for Heaven's sake and therefore praiseworthy.

According to one Midrash, it was God, or the angels, who gathered the animals to the ark, together with their food.

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Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, derives its significance only from the fact that it is the culmination of the ten penitential days with which the Jewish religious year begins ; and therefore it is of no avail without repentance ; ( Midrash Sifra, Emor, 14 .).

It might be thought that with the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem — which event made an end of Sadduceeism — the halakhic Midrash would also have disappeared, seeing that the Halakhah could now dispense with the Midrash.

Ancient exegetes, such as the Midrash and the Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan, suggest something even more sinister behind the killing.

In accordance with a passage in the Midrash, where the verse " Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek " () is explained to mean " even from wood and stones.

In these accounts Judah kills Jashub, king of Tappuah, in hand-to-hand combat, after first having deposed Jashub from his horse by throwing an extremely heavy stone ( 60 shekels in weight ) at him from a large distance away ( the Midrash Wayissau states 177⅓ cubits, while other sources have only 30 cubits ); the accounts say that Judah was able to achieve this even though he was himself under attack, from arrows which Jashub was shooting at him with both hands.

However, it proved an obstacle to further development when, endowed with the authority of a sacred tradition in the Talmud and in the Midrash ( collections edited subsequently to the Talmud ), it became the sole source for the interpretation of the Bible among later generations.

He and his disciples were thoroughly familiar with all the classic texts of Judaism, including the Talmud and its commentaries, Midrash, and Shulchan Aruch.

The Midrash ( Numbers Rabbah 9 ) states that the sorek is a " fruitless tree " ( the word רק req means " empty " in Hebrew ), implying a moral lesson and metaphor suggesting that Samson's involvement in his affair with Delilah was eventually " fruitless ".

The remaining portion of this Torah portion, the comment on Jacob's blessing () is found in all the manuscripts — with the above-mentioned exceptions — in a revision showing later additions, a revision that was also used by the compiler of the Tanhuma Midrash edited by Solomon Buber.

Today's Dor Daim usually take a somewhat more moderate stance, and allow that the Zohar may contain elements of authentic Midrash together with a great deal of later interpolation.

In other variants, other ingredients serve the purpose: in a form known to the Midrash, straw was fed in which nails were hidden, or skins of camels were filled with hot coals, or in the Alexander cycle of Romances it was Alexander the Great who overcame the dragon by feeding it poison and tar.

Though the biblical text itself does not attest to this, Rabbinic sources also identify him as the father of Bilhah and Zilpah, the two concubines with whom Jacob also has children ( Midrash Raba, Genesis 74: 13 and elsewhere ).

According to Midrash Leviticus rabbah he said " As in a theater and circus the statues of the king must be kept clean by him to whom they have been entrusted, so the bathing of the body is a duty of man, who was created in the image of the almighty King of the world.

According to the Midrash, he came into the world on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death.

" ( Genesis 1: 31 )— Midrash: Rabbi Nahman said in Rabbi Samuel's name: " Behold, it was good " refers to the Good Desire ; " And behold, it was very good " refers to the Evil Desire.

In this assembly of Holy Friends, which took place in the Beit Midrash of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, secrets of and revelations on mitzvot of the Torah are explained and clarified — roots and deep meanings of mitzvot.

Rabbi Simon ben Pazzi ( 3rd century ) calls these readings " emendations of the Scribes " ( tikkune Soferim ; Midrash Genesis Rabbah xlix.

Rabbi Bar Kappara was of the opinion ( recorded in the Midrash Rabbah ) that the third day was often the prime point for mourning in those days.

Rebbe Nachman's magnum opus is the two-volume Likutei Moharan ( Collected of Our Teacher and Rabbi, Nachman ), a collection of 411 lessons displaying in-depth familiarity and understanding of the many overt and esoteric concepts embedded in Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, Zohar and Kabbalah.

Breslovers do not restrict themselves to Rabbi Nachman's commentaries on the Torah, but also study many of the classic texts, including the Tanakh, Talmud, Midrash, and many others.

" ( Talmud, tracate Shabbat 31a ; Midrash Avot de Rabbi Natan.

Rabbi, states " Whatever you hate to have done unto you, do not do to your neighbor ; wherefore do not hurt him ; do not speak ill of him ; do not reveal his secrets to others ; let his honor and his property be as dear to thee as thine own " ( Midrash Avot deRabbi Natan.

Rabbi Shulman's website offers scholarly articles on the mis-use of the Targums, Midrash and Talmud by non-Jews who quote from Jewish sources in an attempt to convert Jews.

: Midrash Avot D ' Rabbi Nathan 4: 5

There is a minority view among Rabbinical scholars, for instance that of Rabbi Simeon ben Laqish, that says Job never existed ( Midrash Genesis Rabbah LXVII ).

: Midrash Avot D ' Rabbi Nathan 4: 5

It is also known as Midrash of Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah מ ִ ד ְ ר ָ ש ׁ ר ַ ב ִּ י נ ְ חו ּ נ ְ י ָ א ב ֶּ ן ה ַ ק ָּ נ ָ ה.

* Rabbi Binyomin Moskovitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Midrash Shmuel

* Rabbi Yaakov Peretz, Rosh Yeshiva of Midrash Sepharadi

Rabbi Schorr is currently the senior editor of the English Artscroll Talmud, and teaches the highest level class in the Beis Midrash program.

The Midrash Rabbah states that Rabbi Bar Kappera was of the opinion that mourning should peak on the third day.

* Legends of the Jews, by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg, is an original synthesis of a vast amount of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash.

The book was written by Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi ( 1550 – 1625 ) of Janowa ( near Lublin, Poland ), and mixes Biblical passages with teachings from Judaism's Oral Law such as the Talmud's Aggada and Midrash, which are sometimes called " parables, allegories, short stories, anecdotes, legends, and admonitions " by secular writers.

According to the Talmud and Midrash, this day marks the hillula ( celebration, interpreted by some as anniversary of death ) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar, a landmark text of Jewish mysticism.

Rabbi Kenneth Schiowitz is the Rosh Beit Midrash ( Head of Beit Midrash ).