10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGGADAH»
Discover the use of
Aggadah in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Aggadah and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Unity of Rabbinic Discourse: Halakhah and
Aggadah in Concert
Viewed as ideal types, the Halakhah defines the norm, setting forth what is obligatory, the Aggadah, specifies what exceeds the norm and goes beyond the measure of the law.
2
The Halakhah and the
Aggadah: Theological Perspectives
In theory and in practice, the Aggadah and the Halakhah work out the logic of a single generative conviction.
3
The Native Category-formations of the
Aggadah: The earlier ...
The Native Category-Formations of the Aggadah, Volume II, is an attempt to identify the category-formations that comprise the Aggadic, or theological-exegetical-narrative.
4
Commandments and Concerns: Jewish Religious Education in ...
HALAKHAH AND AGGADAH It is often posited that the distinction between what
we are calling the explicit and the implicit aspects of Judaism is synonymous with
the difference between halakhah — the normative law — and aggadah — the ...
5
A History of the Jewish People
In this era the spirit of the Jewish nation found expression in the aggadah. The
aggadah actually dates back to far earlier times and always had gone hand in
hand with the halakhah, both in sharing the same underlying philosophy and in
the ...
Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson, 1976
The subject matter of Talmud Torah can be roughly divided into two areas:
aggadah and halachah. Aggadah (sometimes also known as haggadah)7 comes
from the Hebrew root "to tell"; it comprises the legal material, the "way in which to
...
Steven M. Brown, Stephen Garfinkel, 1986
7
The Idea of Modern Jewish Culture
In that early period, like Berdyczewski, he sought an unbroken continuity with the
sources, particularly with the lenient, almost dreamlike Aggadah with its talent for
speaking to the hearts of despairing people, reinvesting them with belief. At that ...
Eliezer Schweid, Amnon Hadari, Leonard Levin, 2008
8
Philosophy of the Talmud
This is a new presentation of the philosophy of the Talmud. The Talmud is not a work of formal philosophy, but much of what it says is relevant to philosophical enquiry of the kind that has been going on recently.
9
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion
This became generalized, so that aggadah came to be defined as any rabbinic
passage—whether relating to a scriptural verse or not—that is not (primarily)
concerned with legal matters. Used in this general sense, aggadah and halakhah
...
10
The En Yaaqov: Jacob ibn Habib’s Search for Faith in the ...
this chapter is to target the problems that the Talmud's genre of aggadah raised
for centuries of Jews. Terminological Clarification: Aggadah versus M idrash
Aggadah Before a more nuanced history of aggadah can be explored, it is
important ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGGADAH»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Aggadah is used in the context of the following news items.
Debunking the 'myth of the cultural Jew'
Kwall suggests the teaching of aggadah—which includes the vast body of Jewish law, literature, and folk wisdom—as a basis for moving ... «JNS.org, May 15»
Torah U-Madda: Give YU Some Credit
Expounding on the story of the splitting of the Red Sea, Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer, one of the Midrashei Aggadah, informs us that that there was ... «The Commentator, Apr 15»
Why it doesn't matter whether the Exodus happened
It is also one of the hallmarks of an art form characteristic of the Jewish people from its inception: the art of midrash aggadah, or interpretive ... «Haaretz, Apr 15»
Choosing love over justice: The sacred duty of compromise
... friend,” (Midrash Aggadah, Parshat Chukat, Chapter 2). How are we to consider this perplexing passage? If Moshe is the paradigmatic leader ... «Jerusalem Post Israel News, Mar 15»
History in the Bible
Haggadah, or aggadah (since midrash of this nature wouldn't be halakah) would be based on the presumption of a historic Jesus, then using ... «Patheos, Feb 15»
The Legendary Queen of Sheba and Her Iconic Visit with King …
For now, she remains a legendary figure in the Bible, Quran, Jewish Aggadah, and Kebra Nagast. Regardless of the different versions of the ... «Ancient Origins, Jan 15»
Reconsidering Louis Ginzberg's Legendary 'Legends of the Jews'
... scripture, resulting in a 'conceptual umbrella' of Legends that may create an impression that aggadah is Scripture and Scripture is aggadah.”. «Jewish Daily Forward, Dec 14»
Reform Jewry that even an Israeli could understand
To this day it's the most important introduction to the literature of the Midrash and Aggadah. It was born as part of Zunz's effort to revive the ... «Haaretz, Nov 14»
A Delirious Interpretation of the Binding of Isaac for Yom Kippur
Benjamin, ultimately, juxtaposed the Jewish law (halachah) with mythic storytelling (aggadah), envisioning the rise of the latter from the ... «Jewish Daily Forward, Oct 14»
Noteworthy books for the new year
“If our book of stories is about anything at all,” the editors suggest, “it is about the tradition of storytelling itself, aggadah, which, in all varieties of ... «The Jewish Journal of Greater L.A., Sep 14»
