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/mˈɪdɹæʃ/
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NOUN
- (Judaism) an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical text
How To Use Midrash In A Sentence
- Festivals that provide a forum for Arab and Israeli art and culture, and universities and academies that offer joint courses in the Qur'an and the Bible, midrash and tafsir, cabbalah and Sufism, thereby placing them in their original relation to one another, are today only feasible in exile -- in the West, of all places, which bears part of the blame for the present-day impossible situation. MRZine.org
- The Midrash says that the Third Temple has already been constructed in heaven, and merely awaits our preparations here on earth.
- Robert Price said it very eloquently: "Not only do the Gospels contain basic and irreconcilable differences in their accounts of Jesus, they have been put together according to a traditional Jewish practice known as "midrash", which involved reworking and enlarging on scripture. What Jesus Said and Did: 2) Divorce
- The Midrash then says that Hashem disapproves when Tzaddikim rest in this world.
- In a Midrash, the ancient rabbis asked why Eve was created from Adam's side.
- Furthermore, although compilations of Rabbinical exegeses of the books of the Bible are usually called midrash (e.g. Midrash Gen. Rabbah), some are also called aggadah or haggadah (e.g. Aggadat Shir ha-Shirim, Haggadat Tehillim [i.e., Midrash and Aggadah: Terminology.
- Strictly speaking, the Torah refers to the first five books of the Bible (Five Books of Moses), but it can also mean the entire Bible or all of Jewish law, including the Talmud and the Midrash.
- In addition to making leaps from "not historical research as we know it" to what he calls "midrash" in the next paragraph, and from there to "myth," a key problem is that apparently he hasn't read in detail sources like the first-century Jewish historian Josephus. Mythicism: Microexistence vs. Macroexistence?
- In a Midrash, the ancient rabbis asked why Eve was created from Adam's side.
- The Midrashim, however, go to great lengths to describe Serach as someone who was given extreme longevity for having done a single virtuous deed as a child.
