Midrash Aggadah

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Midrash Aggadah texts, a body of rabbinic literature devoted to the narrative, ethical, and homiletical interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. These works illuminate Scripture through stories, parables, and theological reflection.

Pesikta Rabbati 11

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 11

Judah and Israel are as numerous as the sand on the seashore (1 Kings 4:20). May our Rabbis teach us from whence they pronounce concerning the shekels, so did our Rabbis pronounce ...

SacrificeDeathShekhinahCovenant

Pesikta Rabbati 12

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 12

Remember what Amalek did to you (Deuteronomy 25:17). May our rabbi teach us how one who passes among the graves is obligated to recite the blessing, "Blessed is He who knows the nu...

DeathJudgmentCovenant

Pesikta Rabbati 13

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 13

From Ephraim, who wrote in Amalek after you, Benjamin (Judges 5:14). May our Rabbis teach us what a person should say when he reads the Book of Esther. The Talmud teaches us that o...

Judgment

Pesikta Rabbati 14

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 14

Our rabbis taught: An incident once took place with a Jewish man who had one cow [which he used] for ploughing. [Then], his hand [fortune] was diminished and he sold her [the cow] ...

Torah

Pesikta Rabbati 20

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 20

In the hour that Shlomo built the Holy Temple, the whole world was filled with the fragrance of spices. In the end he saw that it would be destroyed and he wept, saying ‘this fragr...

Torah

Pesikta Rabbati 26

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 26

Jeremiah said: when I was coming up to Jerusalem, I lifted up my eyes and saw a woman sitting on the mountaintop, her clothes were black and her hair unkempt. She cried: I am seeki...

Holy Land

Pesikta Rabbati 27

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 27

The angels said before the Holy One, ‘Master of the World! Isn’t this Jerusalem?!’ as it is said “This is Jerusalem; in the midst of the nations I have placed her…” (Yechezkel 5:5)...

Holy Land

Pesikta Rabbati 28

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 28

R’ Yitzchak expounded on, “On willows in its midst we hung our harps.” (Psalms 137:2) Come and see – the dirt of the land of Israel is for repentance. While they were still in the ...

Holy Land

Pesikta Rabbati 29

Midrash Aggadah Pesikta Rabbati 29

She weeps bitterly in the night (Lamentations 1:2) - Let our teacher the priests teach us - is it permitted for them to immerse for their terumah offering on the Ninth of Av? Rabbi...

Temple