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.

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 6

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 6

(Lev. 15:25:) “And when a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days.” But are there not seven days in a menstrual period? So why did it call them “many days?” Simply because...

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 7

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 7

(Lev. 15:25:) “And when a woman has had a discharge of blood [for many days].” Thus did R. Hiya teach: Any place where [Scripture] says, “days,” it is two days; and any place where...

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 8

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 8

That there are eleven days between one menstrual period and another is a law from Moshe at Sinai. Its explanation is that the law transmitted to Moshe at Sinai is like this: From t...

Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 9

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Metzora 9

(Lev. 15:25:) “And when a woman has had a discharge of blood for many days.” Why a woman and not a man? Previously it applied to men and women. Thus it is stated (in Lev. 15:2), “W...

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 1

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 1

(Lev. 16:1:) “After the death of Aaron's two sons.” This text is related (to Eccl. 9:2), “Since everything [happens] to everyone, the same lot [falls] to the righteous and to the w...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 2

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 2

R. Levy opened (with Ps. 75:5), “I say to the merrymakers (la-holelim), ‘Do not make merry;’” [‘la-holelim’ means] those who create confusion (ma'arbavya').14PRK 26(27):3; Lev. R. ...

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 3

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 3

R. Judan of Gallia opened (with Job 39:27), “Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up and makes its nest on high?” The Holy One, blessed be He, said to Aaron. “At your comman...

Death

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 4

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 4

R. Ahawa bar Ze'era opened (with Job 37:1), “At this also my heart trembles and leaps from its place.” What is the meaning of “and leaps?”33PRK 26(27):5; Lev. R. 20:5. Jumps, as [S...

Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 5

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Achrei Mot 5

(Lev. 16:1:) “After the death of Aaron's two sons.” R. Berekhyah opened (his discourse with Prov. 17:26), “To punish also the righteous is not good; to smite the noble ones for upr...