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Midrash   Listen
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Midrash  n.  (pl. midrashim, midrashoth)  A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.






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"Midrash" Quotes from Famous Books



... old, Joseph frequented the Bet ha-Midrash,[5] and he became so learned that he could impart to his brethren the Halakot he had heard from his father, and in this way he may be regarded as their teacher.[6] He did not stop at formal instruction, he also tried to ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg

... xxvi. 34, 35) and 22, 23, the latter repeated in Ezra i. 1-2. Duhm, indeed, but on insufficient grounds, thinks the former citation, because of its reference to Leviticus, cannot be from our Book of Jeremiah but is from a Midrash unknown to us; yet the chronicler's was the very spirit to associate a Levitical provision with Jer. xxix. 10; cp. xxv. 9-12. The other quotation Duhm refers to some part of Is. xl. ff. (xliv. 28?) as though this had at one ...
— Jeremiah • George Adam Smith



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