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... had proposed lists, namely: R. Shmuel Yaffe Ashkenazi (Yefeh Toar, 1597), R. Zvi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen (Netivot Olam, 1822), R. Zeev Wolf Einhorn (Midrash Tannaim, 1839), R. Mattityahu Strashun (Mattat Yah, 1892), R. Chaim Hirschensohn (Berure HaMidot, 1928). The author of the present essay brought additional information from the Tanakh commentary of R. Shlomo Yitzchaki...

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..., R. Zvi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen(Netivot Olam, 1822), R. Zeev Wolf Einhorn (Midrash Tannaim, 1839), R.Mattityahu Strashun (Mattat Yah, 1892), R. Chaim... ...i (16thCent.), Netivot Olam by R. Zvi Hirsch Katzenellenbogen (19th Cent.), MidrashTannaim by R. Zeev Wolf Einhorn (19th Cent.), Mattat Yah by R. Matt... ...vot Olam ZHK 31 9 11 11 Z. W. Einhorn / Midrash Tannaim ZWE 24 0 1 23 M. Str... ... acceptedas such in rabbinic tradition.Next chronologically is probably the Midrash Genesis Rabbah (abbrev. GR). It wasprobably started by the Amora R... ... ALL THE MORE5. GENESIS RABBAH and afterIn the Midrash Genesis Rabbah (Heb. Bereshith Rabbah, “Major Exegeses ofGenesis” ... ...”Gabay notes, concerning these verses, the need to see Rashi in the name of MidrashRabbah (GR 47:5), and Maharzu on the Midrash “that the reason why a... ...th him as an everlastingcovenant for his seed after him.”Rashi mentions the Midrash Rabbah passage (47:5) with the qal vachomer readingfor v. 21 in hi... ...Isaac’s blessing with the covenant mentioned twice here? We can refer tothe Midrash for answers to this question. According to it, v. 19 serves to exc... ...rah instances mentioned in GR.To complicate matters further, the much later Midrashic work called YalkutShimoni (abbrev. YS), which means “[The] Gathe...

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...d adjustment,evident in the oral traditions underlying the Mishnah and the Midrash. Otherpossible responses included flight into an esoteric mysticism... ...w Bible or in contemporary 5Jewish midrashes, but in a Sethian text, the Revelation of Adam. The mythrecounted... ... NOTES 1. Philo, De Specialibus Legibus 1.86–87, 92; 2 Enoch 30:4–6. 2. Midrash Rabbah Numbers 2:14; Midrash Rabbah Exodus 15:6. 3. So the sixth c...

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...as unclean, even evil. For the rest of us, there are good dogsand bad dogs.Midrashic tradition holds that God granted a special dispensation todogs in... ...hout Egypt, but that where the Hebrewslived, not even a dog would bark.The Midrash states that just before the Angel of Death descended,God instructed...

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...ent). According to Genesis Rabbah (92:7, ParashatMiqets), an authoritative Midrashic work, there are tensamples of such of argument in the Tanakh: of ... ...he record, I will now briefly classify the sixcases which according to the Midrash occur in the other100 Logic in the Tora... ...em in the Books of Moses and the other six in variousother locations. This Midrashic work is traditionally said tohave been compiled either by Rabbi O... ...iderable detail the four cases of a fortiori spotted in theChumash by this Midrash, namely: Gen. 44:8, Exod. 6:12,Num. 12:14, and Deut. 31:27. The oth... ...ty) cases in the Bible, andfurthermore that one of the cases listed by the Midrash isopen to doubt as a genuine case.My first inkling that something w... ...y onGenesis, I noted to my relief their comment that ‘someeditions’ of the Midrash include Gen. 4:24 instead of Ezek.15:5 in the list of ten. The Rash... ... qal vachomer. (Assumably, then,Rashi favoured the special editions of the Midrash, since inhis commentary to Gen. 44:8 he does not dispute the claimt... ...se ten, and they all agree on ninecases). How they reconcile this with the Midrash claim,which they apparently all continue to uphold undaunted, isbey... ... eleven cases.The simplest solution, it seems to me, would be to regardthe Midrash claim as not intended as exhaustive; then thereis no problem of dou...

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...as unclean, even evil. For the rest of us, there are good dogsand bad dogs.Midrashic tradition holds that God granted a special dispensation for ... ...hout Egypt, but that where the Hebrewslived, not even a dog would bark.The Midrash states that just before the Angel of Death descended,God instructed...

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... (16th Cent.), Netivot Olam by R. Zvi HirschKatzenellenbogen (19th Cent.), Midrash Tannaim by R. Zeev Wolf Einhorn (19th Cent.), MattatYah by R. Matti... ... Netivot Olam ZHK 31 9 11 11 Z. W. Einhorn / Midrash Tannaim ZWE 24 0 1 23 M. Strashun... ...ccepted as such in rabbinic tradition.Next chronologically is probably the Midrash Genesis Rabbah (abbrev. GR). It was probablystarted by the Amora R.... ...ical qal vachomer not yet known to us. 5. GENESIS RABBAH and afterIn the Midrash Genesis Rabbah (Heb. Bereshith Rabbah, “Major Exegeses of Genesis” ... ...Gabay notes, concerning these verses, the need to see Rashi in the name of Midrash Rabbah (GR47:5), and Maharzu on the Midrash “that the reason why a ... ... him as an everlasting covenant for his seed after him.”Rashi mentions the Midrash Rabbah passage (47:5) with the qal vachomer reading for v. 21 in hi... ...saac’s blessing with the covenant mentioned twice here?We can refer to the Midrash for answers to this question. According to it, v. 19 serves to excl... ... THE ART OF LOGICTo complicate matters further, the much later Midrashic work called Yalkut Shimoni (abbrev.YS), which means “[The] Gather... ... anyone else we know about (14 instances besides the 11 instances given in Midrash GR, ofcourse). Namely: Genesis 6:3; 2 Kings 5:13; Ezekiel 14:13-21,...

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...kets of his lifeand no longermarks his own position.Shamir1. 17, May,2006A Midrash on Tadeusz Borowski’s The Sun of Auschwitz“Villagers of Artas depen... ...fivewe’re very much alive.What we heard,we will survive.2. March 18, 2008A Midrash on Celan’s Welchen der SteineDalia Itzik of the ruling Kadima party... ... give no thanks the silent windcan split love’s rock.3. January 1st 2009.A Midrash on Mandelstam, January 1, 1924Nizar Rayan i.m.The Year hit you from...

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...dgement of these principles in Western philosophy and their assimilation in a developed theory of knowledge. Another surprise is that, in contrast to Midrashic claims, the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) contains a lot more than ten instances of qal vachomer (a-fortiori) reasoning. In sum, Judaic Logic elucidates and evaluates the epistemological assumptions which have generated th...

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...in a developed theory of knowledge. Another surprise is that, in contrast to Midrashic claims, the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) contains a lot more than t... ...ngent). According to Genesis Rabbah (92:7, ParashatMiqets), an authoritative Midrashic work, there are ten samples of such of argument in theTanakh: o... ... the record, I will now briefly classify the six cases whichaccording to the Midrash occur in the other books of the Bible. The reader should look the... ...them in the Books of Moses and the other six in various otherlocations. This Midrashic work is traditionally said to have been compiled either by Rabb... ...siderable detail the four cases of a-fortiori spotted in the Chumash by this Midrash, namely: Gen. 44:8, Exod. 6:12, Num. 12:14,and Deut. 31:27. The o... ...irty) cases in the Bible, andfurthermore that one of the cases listed by the Midrash is open to doubt as a genuine case. My first inkling that some... ...ry on Genesis, I noted to my relief theircomment that ‘some editions’ of the Midrash include Gen. 4:24 instead of Ezek. 15:5 in thelist of ten. The Ra... ... a qal vachomer. (Assumably, then, Rashi favoured thespecial editions of the Midrash, since in his commentary to Gen. 44:8 he does not dispute theclai... ...t eleven cases. Thesimplest solution, it seems to me, would be to regard the Midrash claim as not intended asexhaustive; then there is no problem of d...

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...ada a este verso´e Chokm´a 316. Kaplan, por sua vez, funda sua opini˜ao no midrash que dizque “Vento d´a nascimento `a Sabedoria” (Shemot Rab´a 15:22)... ...implicados por Chokm´a 353 ´e Bin´a . Sobre isso, um midrash diz: “Agua concebe e d´a vida `a escurid˜ao,Fogo concebe e d´a vi... ...arelacionada com a Arvore do Conhecimento do Bem e do Mal´ 37. Um midrash afirma que a express˜ao “princ´ıpio” se refere `a Tor´a, devido aove... ...a, vento, fogo, sabedoria, luz, escurid˜ao e ´agua.” (ShemotRab´a 15)12. O midrash est´a afirmando que, sendo os trˆes elementos, ´agua, are fogo, asso... ...h, elas tamb´em foram “criadas antes [deste]mundo.” Devemos entender que o midrash n˜ao est´a se referindo propriamenteaos elementos, mas aos seus asp... ...ao, o mundo de Tohu. 12Cf. Rev. Samuel Rapaport, Tales and Maxims from the Midrash, London: GeorgeRoutledge & Sons Limited, New York: E. P. Dutton & C... ...pec´ıfica e n˜ao possuem existˆencia permanente, nem nome. Sobreisso o midrash diz: “Um anjo n˜ao pode executar duas tarefas ao mesmotempo, ... ...umero de estrelas, chamando-as todaspelo seu nome” (Salmos 147:4). O midrash afirma que diferentes nomes deestrelas denotam diferentes nomes ... ...s sem nome foram criados,segundo algumas opini˜oes, no segundo dia, como o midrash afirma, ao dizer:“Existe uma diferen¸ca de opini˜ao sobre o di...

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...nciples of the Hebrew Bible and variouscommentaries such as the Talmud and Midrash. Judaism alsouniversally recognizes the Biblical Covenant between G... ...ents of Torah. All thehermeneutic rules scattered through the Talmudim and Midrashim havebeen collected by Malbim in Ayyelet ha-Shachar, the introduct...

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...ty has many names in The Zohar, taken fromthe language of interpretations [Midrash]. To help us connectto the heart of the matter, Baal HaSulam consis... ...bylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 97a11 genesis, 11:112 genesis, 25:613 Based on Midrash Rabah, Eicha Rabah, Introduction, Paragraph 214 Johannes Reuchlin, ... ...ael Bar Eliahu, The Remnants of Israel, Gate of Connection, “Gate One,” Midrash 5, Essay 2Many fools escape from studying the secrets of the Ari an... ...y day will have provision. Rav Pinhas Shapira of Kuritz, Midrash Pinhas Selected References in Praise of The zohar 1... ... Rav Pinhas Shapira of Kuritz, Midrash Pinhas, 36, Item 73 S T U dy I N G T h e Z o h a r C o M Pa r ... ... Rav Pinhas Shapira of Koritz, Midrash Pinhas, 72, Item 3The most important is The Zohar and the correctio... ...chaim, “There are no limitations onstudying The Zohar because it is mostly Midrash (commentaries).The Hafetz Chaim used to evoke everyone to study The...

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...ound this maxim in the Mekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael (Beshallach, 1); but this Midrash is a later document, thought todate from the 3rd century.5 In O... ...raim andtheir successors, respectively. Its use also in the early and late Midrashic literature deserves close study too. Asregards the Amoraim, it is... ...ce is found in Bamidbar (Numbers) Rabbah 13:15, an 11th or 12th century CE midrash. But the implicit concept is nodoubt much earlier. I would guess th... ...ent in spirit and practice from Islamiclaw.3. SifraThe Sifra is a halakhic midrash to Leviticus, which is occasionally called Torat Kohanim like the T... ...escribed for beginning and ending the Sabbath.154. The Korach argumentsThe Midrash called Bemidbar (Numbers) Rabbah, which is closely related to the M... ...ght to Israel.16 See: www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14236-tanhuma-midrash.194 A FORTIORI LOGICfour terms. The major and... ... logical means. I think the arguments were imaginedby the author(s) of the Midrash for three reasons. One was to flesh out the story of Korach with so... ...his is not how some later commentators have understood the purpose of this Midrash. They have taken itto mean, not that Korach was arguing fallaciousl... ...at our analysis above has demonstrated, an erroneous interpretation of the Midrash.The commentator evidently does not have great logical knowhow, sinc...

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...0-135CE), both of which are given at the beginning of the Sifra (ahalakhic midrash, attributed by many to Rab, i.e. Abba Arika,175–247 CE). It is also... ... six elsewhere , are listed inGenesis Rabbah (in Heb. Bereshith Rabbah), a midrashic work(closed ca. 400-450 CE) attributed by tradition to R. OshiaRa... ...found this maxim in theMekhilta de Rabbi Ishmael (Beshallach, 1); but this Midrash is a laterdocument, thought to date from the 3rd century.84 In ... ...nce is found in Bamidbar (Numbers) Rabbah13:15, an 11th or 12th century CE midrash. But the implicit concept is nodoubt much earlier. I would guess th... ...reat the issuesrelatively superficially.2. SifraThe Sifra is a halakhic midrash to Leviticus, which isoccasionally called Torat Kohanim ... ... Logic in the Talmud3. The Korach argumentsThe Midrash called Bemidbar (Numbers) Rabbah, which isclosely related to the Mi... ...t toIsrael.177 See: www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/14236-tanhuma-midrash.Chapter 4 261There is, note we... ...iscourse in the Torahitself; it only appears much later in history, in the Midrash. Thesetwo arguments attributed to Korach are traditionally regarded... ...slogical means. I think the arguments were imagined by theauthor(s) of the Midrash for three reasons. One was to flesh outthe story of Korach with som...

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...isdom of the New Jewish PeopleThe basic approach of the rabbis is to apply Midrash to reading the Torah - theRabbis are willing to be very bold in the... ...bizarre tosay that G-d is the object of creation. Going beyond traditional Midrash, the Zoharemploys radical creativity to make us question our curren...

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..." etc.2/- net.THE WISDOM OF ISRAEL: Being Extracts from theBabylonian Talmud and Midrash Rabboth. Translated fromthe Aramaic with an introduction by E...

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...ng 4 There are no limitations on studying The Zohar because it is mostly Midrash(commentaries). The Hafetz Chaim used to evoke everyone to study The... ...o do not want to engage in this wisdom, since thewords of our sages in the Midrash and in The Zohar are truer than the greatestin this generation. ... ...to walk in them. Hence,they said, “The Song of Songs, the Holy of Holies” (Midrash Rabba, Song of Songs).This is because it is founded on this very ma... ... (Kidushin p 30), “If thou comethacross this villain, pull him to the Beit Midrash (seminary). If he is hard, he willsoften. Hence, not coerced are th... ...c preparation and merit to attain the wisdom ofTorah. Yet, our sages said (Midrash Raba, Portion “And This Is the Blessing”),“The Creator said unto Is... ...re liberated from the angel of death. –Midrash Shemot Raba, 41These words need to be clarified, because how is the... ...th freedom from the angel of death. This is the meaning of thewords of the Midrash (Midrash Rabba, Shemot, 41, Item 7): “Freedom from theangel of deat... ...r days. It is seeminglya criminal offence, as about such our sages said in Midrash Rabba, Beresheet,about Ahaz, that he was called Ahaz (literally tra... ...ese words, our eyes have been opened concerning thewords of Rabbi Simon in Midrash Rabba, Parasha 6, about the verse, “Let us makeman.” When the Creat...

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... Lilith qua demoness grew out of a pious scholarly endeavor: the practice of midrash. Midrash makes use of allegory, parable, and above all narrativ... ...ve all narrative to open the way into holy writ.The Lilith midrash duly noted that the first female was made at the same moment, ...

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...The large letters are used mainly to callattention to certain Talmudic and midrashic homilies and citations, or as guards against errors.” This is the... ...can best be characterized as that of ‘rewritten scripture' and is close to Midrash andTargum.” 28 R. Bauckham, " The Climax of Prophecy: Studies in...

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...at happened) but continued with moredevelopments and embellishments in the Midrash, in theZohar, and so forth.This is mythical discourse, found in eve... ... and commentaryOn Biblical commentaries. Looking at the commentaries ofthe Midrash or of different rabbinical personalities (Talmudicor later) relativ... ...se very relative to one’s context ofknowledge and understanding. There are Midrashic commentariesthat I find hilariously fanciful, though I well imagi... ...nceivable). I am, of course, aware that Rashidraws heavily on Talmudic and Midrashic accounts, but thefact remains that he draws on explanations with ...

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...ction”or “light,” the force that corrects, as in, “The Light in itreformed them” (Midrash Raba, Eicha, Introduction, 2ndparagraph). Torah also stands ... ...Nature of Creation, as it is written, “It is knownthat Esau is hateful of Jacob” (Midrash Sifrey, ParashatBeHaalotchah, par. 11).178 FROM CH...

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...; S Ephrem c.1 ; Cedreni p.15 ; Caverne des Trésors (Revue de l’orient) p.228Midrash tTankhuma (fol.6) rapporte une histoire semblable. ... ...les idoles. Entre Noah et Henoc, il s’écoula 1700ans. Cf Tabari p.95Selon le Midrash Tankhuma (fol.6), depuis la malédiction de Dieu sur la terre à c... ... [1226-1286] Gregorii Abulpharagii (Bar-Hebræus), historienBereshith Rabbah  Midrash Rabbah: Genesis [400 à 500] -Soncin...

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...s ben Shem Tov de Leon (ca. 1240–1305): Spanish kabbalist. Wrote Mystical Midrash, foundation for the Zohar.* Rebi Nahman of Bratslav (1772–1811): C...

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...ve been told about Rashbi, who wasmentioned repeatedly in the Talmud and in the Midrash,the sacred Hebrew texts of his time. Rashbi was born and rai...

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...ah. Before the ARI all the books were written in the language oflegends or midrash, like the Zohar. Until then, Kabbalists wrote their books as astory...

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...łyń), with an important rabbi. And in addition to that therewas the so-called Beit Midrash, study house – which was"neutral", and that was where Jews ... ...ly, that it had only one synagogue instead of three asin Boremel. There was a Beit Midrash, and next to the studyhouse there was also a small shtiebel... ... houses, a few small poor shopswhere women sit (the owners study Torah in the Beit Midrashor at home), dressed in rags and waiting for a customer whon...

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...for example: Maimonides. Mishneh Torah. The Laws of kings and theirwars. 8, 11. The term was used before him by Midrash Agur, circa 800 AD.)In modern ... ...n is a roaring silence that ex-presses his dissatisfaction. Costa ignores that and tells the story according to MidrashMishlei that Rabbi Meir accepte... ...nows him-self [Costa] has no reason to know or understand words of the sages... just mostly in-doors, the beith midrash and the printing press...his e...

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... reasoning. When the22 Given at the beginning of the Sifra (a halakhic midrash).23 In other words, the traditional Judaic belief (or dogma) th... ...unnily enough,even that claim is a copycat claim, being found in Talmudand Midrash in favor of the Torah, long before Islamappeared! And indeed, this ...

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...nd, jinn and animals, where animals were hisservants and soldiers, and the Midrash Jewish Book states that Suleimanused to talk to animals and speak t...

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...male child will be cast into the River Nile. Thisstory is addressed in the Midrash: “Why did they decree that theyshould cast them into the river? Bec...

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...4-641; EarlyIsraelitish literature, XIII. 408; the Talmud, XXIII. 35;the Midrash, XVI. 285; the Mishnah, XVI. 502. 2. Sanskrit.-XXI. ...

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...o numerous legends, and he is mentioned constantly in the Talmudand in the Midrash, the sacred Hebrew texts of his time. He lived in Sidon andin Meron... ...a, Raya Mi’emna,Ashmatot, Sitrey Torah, Sitrey Otiot, and Tikuney Zohar.5. Midrash HaNe’elam (The Commentary on the Writings): Song of Songs, Ruth,Eic... ...Besides these articles, the rest of The Zohar is written inthe language of Midrash. In its original form, The Book of Zohar—written by Rabbi Aba sixt... ...he Prophets, and Malchut is the Holy Scriptures. TheLight of VAK is called Midrashim and the Light of GAR is called “the secrets ofthe Torah.” And all... ...d the angels’ objections, one must firstunderstand the words of the sages (Midrash Raba, 86): “When creating the world,the Creator asked the angels: ‘...

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...member of the human race (Abot iii. 15, v. 20; Ber. v. 1; see Abba). Inone midrash, the Torah is said to be God's "daughter" (Leviticus Rabbah xx.)"(h... ...GOD" respectively as the trinitarian Christians falsely claim.Also,"In one midrash, the Torah is said to be God's "daughter'", further proves my point...

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...ing nail in three strokes. No wasted effort. Perhaps it’s not as impressive as studyingthe Midrash but still it’s an accomplishment of sorts.” Miri...

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...withhis son Rabbi Eleazar. They sat in a cave for thirteenyears, feeding – as the Midrash has it – on carobs andwater from a nearby spring. Their clot...

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... accept the o eringof Nimrod’s forefather, Cain (May God curse them). There is a Jewish Midrash (Rabbinictradition) that states: He [Abraham] was g... ... of your descendants after you. The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a2 Midrash (Bereshit) Rabbah, Chapter 38, Verse 133 The Holy Bibl... ...d: “Dig” and they dug and they25 The Holy Bible, Book of Exodus, Chapter 13, Verse 1926 Midrash Tanchuma, Naso 30, Verse 1 55... ... stMeyer, Marvin. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. 1 ed. HarperOne, 2008.Midrash (Bereshit) Rabbah.Mishna HaMevoeres. ...

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...athappened) but continued with more developments and embellishments in the Midrash, in theZohar, and so forth.This is mythical discourse, found in eve... ...and commentaryOn Biblical commentaries. Looking at the commentaries of the Midrash or of differentrabbinical personalities (Talmudic or later) relativ... ...se very relative to one’s context of knowledge and understanding. Thereare Midrashic commentaries that I find hilariously fanciful, though I well imag... ...statements.Considering, for instance, that many of the writers of fanciful midrashim (stories written inTalmudic times) were at the same time halakhic... ...nceivable). Iam, of course, aware that Rashi draws heavily on Talmudic and Midrashic accounts, but thefact remains that he draws on explanations with ...

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...ist for his people. (2) Some modern scholars have seen it as a postexilic midrash on divine love (similar to the first option). (3) A common view se...

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...ist for his people. (2) Some modern scholars have seen it as a postexilic midrash on divine love (similar to the first option). (3) A common view se...

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...II.yüzyılın başlarına kadar Romanyotların24 liderleri arasında önemli bir figür olmuş-tur. O, Midrash Leqah Tob olarak bilinen Tevrat’ın ilk beş kitab...

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...ebrew “to award” (“Lizkot”) is similar to the word “to purify” (“Lezakot”). Midrash “Bereshit Rabbah” says, “The Command- ments are given only t...

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...he supervision of Josephus himself. The sources of knowledge that we have of this war are: Josephus's account and from the Talmud (gittin 57b) and in midrash Eichah....