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, Emor 15

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 15

(Lev. 22:27), “And from the eighth day on [it shall be acceptable for an offering by fire to the Lord].” So that your [evil] drive not lead you astray by saying that there is eatin...

Sacrifice

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 16

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 16

(Lev. 22:27:) “When a bull or a sheep or a goat.” This text is related (to Ps. 27:6), “And now shall my head be lifted up over my enemies round about me and I will offer sacrifice ...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 17

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 17

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day [beautiful tree fruit, branches of palm trees, boughs of dense trees and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoi...

Torah

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 18

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 18

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves.” [Take (rt.: lqh) implies] by a full purchase (rt.: lqh), for you are not to persist in stealing it.84ySuk. 3:1 (53c); Suk. 43a; L...

Judgment

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 19

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 19

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves.” This text is related (to Ps. 35:10), “All my bones shall say, ‘Lord, who is like you?’” David has stated this verse beautifully.9...

King David

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 20

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 20

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day.” After all the wisdom which is ascribed to Solomon (since according to I Kings 5:11), “He was the wisest of all p...

SolomonWisdom

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 21

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 21

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day,” and even on the Sabbath.95See Lev. 30:8; PRK 27:8. [Indeed] during the time that the Temple was standing, [the p...

Shabbat

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 22

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 22

(Lev. 23:40:) “And you shall take for yourselves on the first day.” Is it the first [day]?97Lev. R. 30:7; PRK 27:7. Is it not the fifteenth day? So how is it the first? It is simpl...

Holidays

Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 23

Midrash Aggadah Midrash Tanchuma, Emor 23

(Lev. 24:10:) “Now there went out the son of an Israelite woman.” From where did he go out?103Lev. R. 32:3. R. Levi says, “He went out from his world, just as it is stated (in I Sa...

Holidays