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		Aggadah (Hebrew, narrative) is rabbinic teaching which is not halakhah and which stories, legends, history, and witticism.
		The rabbis themselves state that the aggadah is not authoritative and insist that no halakhah may be derived from aggadot, but it is held in high esteem concerning insight and piety.
		Although the aggadah lacked the authority of the halakhah it was the literature from which evolved over a period of nearly a thousand years the treasury of Jewish thought and feelings which formed the Hebrew people.
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/a/aggadah.html (333 words)

	Aggadah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Aggadah (Aramaic אגדה: tales, lore; pl. Aggadot) refers to the homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in classical rabbinic literature - particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash.
		The aggadah, along with the Kabbalah, falls under the latter.
		In the Midrash, the aggadic and halakhic material are compiled as two distinct collections: the Aggadic Midrashim, generally, are explanatory aggada, deriving the "sermonic implications" from the biblical text; the Halakhic Midrashim derive the laws from the text.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aggadah (1807 words)

	Marc Bregman, Department of Religious Studies, UNCG
		Those who developed and transmitted the Aggadah and the Midrash were rooted in the people from whom they came and to whom they addressed their ideas.
		Aggadah is, therefore, essentially creative rather than analytical in its approach to biblical historiography and philology.
		The Aggadah concentrates the action of the biblical narrative by identifying separate details, The donkey that Abraham himself saddled when setting out to sacrifice Isaac (Gen. 22:3) is the same donkey which Moses rode when he returned to Egypt to redeem Israel(Exod.
	www.uncg.edu /rel/contacts/faculty/Heinemann.htm (8571 words)

	Chavurath B'nei Noach: CB"N Library: Reading Room: Ein Yaakov - The Aggadah of the Babylonian Talmud: Introductions
		Ein Yaakov - the Aggadah of the Babylonian Talmud
		Aggadah is the component of the Talmud that deals with non-legal subjects.
		A prime example of an aggadah that describes an historical event is the extensive account of the destruction of the Bet Hamikdash in Gittin 55b-58a.
	webpages.charter.net /chavurathbneinoach/ein_yaakov.html (7051 words)

	Aggadah and Mashalim
		Theology and philosophy are important subjects in Aggadah, and there are extensive sermons interpreting the Scriptures.
		In all of the Torah there are only five parables, but they abound with prodigal lavishness in the Aggadah of the Talmud, in the Midrash, and in the books of the Apocrypha which are the non-canonical, extra-Biblical writings.
		Aggadah and Mashalim contain parables of infinite beauty and enshrines sayings of everlasting worth.
	headcoverings-by-devorah.com /Aggadah.html (745 words)

	l e a r n @ j t s READING OPPORTUNITIES Life and Death Responsibilities in Jewish Biomedical Ethics Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While there may at times be tension between halakhah and aggadah, between the letter and the spirit of the law, the relation is essentially symbiotic.
		Aggadah without halakhah, its worldly concretization, is like a ghost, too ethereal to be realized.
		The primary source of ethical values in these works is the Jewish tradition, in explicit statements of aggadah and in values implicit in halakhah (and aggadic narrative).
	learn.jtsa.edu /topics/reading/bomonth/jan01_intro.shtml (4284 words)

	Midrash Rabbah
		Aggadah is the name given to a certain kind of writing (be it history, story, legend, allegory, scientific observation or such like) that is not legal or concerned with law.
		Midrash Aggadah is the most common and contains stories and legends, concerned with ethical teachings or other topical issues.
		Midrash Halachah and Midrash Aggadah exist side by side in the same way that Halachic (having to do with Jewish Law) and Aggadic (not having to do with Jewish Law) material exist together in the Talmud.
	www.yashanet.com /studies/judaism101/sidebars/midrash.htm (692 words)

	Tastiest Torah Treats
		There are two kinds of Midrash, because there are two kinds of Jewish teaching in general: "halakhah" and "aggadah".
		"Aggadah" comes from the word "l'hagid" which means "to tell." So "halakhah" can be translated as "walking the walk" and "aggadah" can be translated as "talking the talk".
		More prosaically, "halakhah" is the guidelines or rules of Jewish living -- "Jewish law", and "aggadah" is everything else -- ethical teachings that go beyond specific practical rules; wise sayings; advice of various kinds; and especially stories.
	www.kolel.org /tastytreats/mod3.1.html (523 words)

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		I teach a third-year course at the Ziegler School for Rabbinic Studies at the University of Judaism called "Aggadah and Halakhah." The course explores - in both a general way and through specific midrashic and talmudic texts - the relationship between the genres of rabbinic literature that are traditionally known as aggadah and halakhah.
		Aggadah often is seen as comprising stories, homilies, religious epigrams, and anything else that is not halakhah or law.
		I try to show how halakhah and aggadah are inextricably linked together using a model based on the works of Zionist visionary and writer Haim Nachman Bialik and legal theorist Robert Cover.
	www.shma.com /apr01/cohen.htm (1217 words)

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		Theology in action; how the rabbis of the Talmud present theology (Aggadah) in the medium of the Law (Halakhah); an anthology.(book)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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	Peshat and Derash
		He contrasts the decisive authority of rabbinic dicta pertaining to the interpretation of verses concerned with halakha with the force of rabbinic comments in the matter of aggadah.
		In many places he discusses those words in Hazal seriously, and when they do not seem to him to convey the simple sense of the verse, he prefers to assume that they are not to be taken literally, but they possess an inner meaning [sod].
		The phenomenon of double meanings, whether side-by-side or one superimposed on the other, should be familiar to students from their literature classes, and it is important to develop sensitivity to it in the teaching of Scripture, too.
	www.lookstein.org /articles/maori.htm (5566 words)

	Table of contents for Questions and answers
		Aggadah and the Theology of Rabbinic Judaism 18.
		Aggadah and History 000 What was the conception of history put forth by rabbinic Judaism in the Aggadah?
		Aggadah and Halakah 000 How did theology and law, Aggadah and Halakah, combine in rabbinic Judaism to advance the restoration of Israel?
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023160.html (2244 words)

	MyJewishLearning.com - Texts: Overview: Midrash Aggadah
		Midrash aggadah is found in many places throughout the two Talmuds and in midrashic collections.
		Midrash Rabbah, the "Great Midrash," is the name given to a set of collections linked to each of the five books of the Torah and the five scrolls of the Ketuvim (Writings, the third section of the Tanakh) read on holidays.
		Though the early forms of midrash aggadah have long since passed from use, the activity of midrash has left its imprint.
	www.myjewishlearning.com /texts/Midrash/MidrashAggadah.htm (714 words)

	Glossary
		aggadah (also haggadah) — the ethical sayings and scriptural exposition of the sages, in contrast to their halachic statements; the non-legal part of rabbinic literature in contrast to halachah.
		darshan — a Jewish preacher who is particularly skilled in aggadah and gives sermons and expositions of the biblical text in accordance with midrashic exegesis.
		The most famous of these is the Cairo Genizah, discovered in 1896 in the attic of the Ezra Synagogue in Fostat (Old Cairo), where most of the lost Hebrew book of Ben Sira was discovered.
	www.jerusalemperspective.com /default.aspx?tabid=53 (3175 words)

	Ki Tavo - Rabbi Aharon Katz
		Essentially the view here is that accepting the Sages' words regarding aggadah or outlook changes from an obligatory ruling to a challenge for the student of their works.
		Nevertheless, if an aggadah presented in the Talmud is examined and found not to contain errors, it should be accepted.
		The Geonim asked us to view the words of the Sages in the aggadah as requiring elucidation and study, and challenged us not to accept things simply because they are written or said in the name of the Sages.
	www.biu.ac.il /JH/Parasha/eng/kitabo/kat.html (1529 words)

	Interpreting Halakah and Aggadah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Halakah and aggadah each have different rules governing interpretation.
		Halakah must result in a ruling that the entire community is to follow.
		Aggadah has no such requirement, permitting multiple, well reasoned interpretations.
	www.wou.edu /las/humanities/cannon/ppj8/tsld017.htm (32 words)

	Avot003
		I suggest that this delineation of the nature of Halakhah and Aggadah in terms of action and thought...is not accurate, or at least is not adequate...
		Perhaps the real distinction between Halakhah and Aggadah is not that of action and thought, but of mandatory and voluntary...
		The difference between Halakhah and Aggadah is a difference of content and type.
	www.bmv.org.il /Shiurim/avot/avot003.html (1118 words)

	Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah by Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Y. H. Rawnitzky and Hayim N. Bialik : Booksamillion.com ...
		A captivating melange of wisdom and piety, fantasy and satire, Aggadah is the expressive medium of the Jewish creative genius.
		Here, the reader who wants to explore traditional Jewish views on a particular subject is treated to a selection of relevant texts at his fingertips but will soon become immersed in a way of thinking, exploring, and questioning that is the hallmark of Jewish inquiry.
		"Whatever the imagination can invent is found in the Aggadah," wrote the historian Leopold Zunz, "its purpose always being to teach man the ways of God." The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah, now available in william Braude's superbly annotated translation, enables modern Jews to experience firsthand the richness and excitement of their cultural inheritance.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=0805241132 (328 words)

	Torah Study
		If a person will sin: If he accepted a demand for an oath, and he is a witness — either he saw or he knew — if he does not testify, he shall bear his iniquity;
		Aggadah and Halacha each have their own sets of rules for study.
		To some extent the rules for Aggadah can also apply to Halacha, and of course vice versa.
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	GW \| Marc Saperstein
		If one purpose of this book is to reclaim an individual author, the second major purpose is to delineate upon the broad canvas of Jewish cultural history the area of his major interest and efforts.
		The history of interpretation of the aggadah has yet to be generally recognized as a subject worthy of systematic study.
		Many of the most important works of aggadic exegesis remain in manuscript; these must be published and studied before any general survey-even for a single geographical area such as southern France-may be safely attempted.
	home.gwu.edu /~msaper/index.html (6119 words)

	Schocken Books \| Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah by H. N. Bialik
		Bialik and Ravnitzky chose Aggadah -- the non-legal portions of the Talmud and Midrash -- for their anthology.
		Loosely translated as "legends", Aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the Talmudic era sages and their contemporary history, parables, proverbs, and folklore.
		To have Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah available in English is to open to the entire English-reading world -- Jew, non-Jew, religionist, secularist -- one of the very great creations of humankind: a rich and intricately woven tapestry of tales, homilies, legends and dreams that come to us from the very roots of the imagination.
	www.randomhouse.com /schocken/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805241136 (540 words)

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		To understand what was meant by the World to Come according to the writings of the Sages we must first clarify the correct way of reading, understanding and interpreting the aggadic homilies of the Sages.
		The Sages’ attitude towards aggadah, or legend, is a central theme in the intellectual history of the Jewish people.
		On trends in interpreting aggadah in the Middle Ages, see Isadore (Yitzhak) Twersky, “Rabbi Yedaiah ha-Penini and his Commentary on the Aggadah,” in Studies in Jewish Religious and Intellectual History Presented to Alexander Altmann, edited by Raphael Loewe and Siegfried Stein,
	www.biu.ac.il /JH/Parasha/eng/vahet/car.html (2081 words)

	OEDILF - Word Lookup
		Defines: aggadah; agada; haggadah; halachah; halacha; halakhah; halakha
		The halacha (ha-LA-[kh]a or ha-la-[KH]A) is the body of rabbinical literature interpreting and explaining Jewish law found in the Torah and elsewhere.
		The aggadah (ah-GA-da), in contrast, is the portion of that literature that includes stories, legends, astronomy, medicine, and everything else not concerned with Scriptural or traditional law.
	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=aggadah (150 words)

	10446
		The course introduces the student to the outlook of the Aggadah and the Rabbis.
		The Rabbis cast their views in literary forms, such as Midrash, story, allegory, saying, etc. The course introduces the student to the characteristics of each genre of Aggadah type, and to the different methods of literary analysis.
		Topics: Introduction; Methods of homiletic interpretation (Derash); Aggadic expansion of biblical stories; Lives of the Rabbis; Allegory; Proverbs and aphorisms; Rabbinic thought; Tannaitic Aggadah; Amoraic Aggadah and late Midrash; Interpretation of Aggadah and its research.
	www-e.openu.ac.il /courses/10446.htm (86 words)

	Judaism.com - The Book of Legends (Sefer Ha-Aggadah) Legends From the Talmud and Midrash
		One of the best-loved anthologies of Rabbinic lore, The Book of Legends (Sefer Ha-Aggadah) was compiled by the Hebrew poet laureate Hayim Nahman Bialik and the noted Hebrew editor and publisher Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky.
		Aggadah is the term for the nonlegal portions of the Talmud and Midrash, or, more loosely, legends.
		This treasury of aggadic legends, culled from these classic Jewish texts and arranged by theme, is a captivating melange of fantasy, satire, wisdom, and piety.
	www.judaism.com /display.asp?etn=BHEBF (240 words)

	Crossroads: When Theology Meets Halakhah - DRAFT
		Rather, there are certain areas where halakhah and aggadah intersect and in those cases, where there is a need for practical aggadic conclusions, the halakhic process applies to aggadah as well.
		These beliefs whose acceptance is a commandment are part of the intersection of halakhah and aggadah and, as such, are subject to the halakhic process of decision-making.
		The crossroads of aggadah and halakhah is the definition of a heretic.
	www.aishdas.org /articles/crossroads.htm (2800 words)

	Midrash Bibliography, General Studies
		"The Hermeneutic Rules of the Aggadah." In Hellenism in Jewish Palestine, 68-82.
		Sarason, Richard S. "Kadushin's Study of Midrash: Value-Concepts and Their Literary Embodiment." In Understanding the Rabbinic Mind: Essays on the Rabbinic Thought of Max Kadushin, edited by Peter Ochs, 45-72.
		"Toward a New Agendum for the Study of Rabbinic Midrashic Literature." In Studies in Aggadah, Targum and Jewish Liturgy in Memory of Joseph Heinemann, edited by Petuchowski, Jakob J. and Ezra Fleischer, 55-73.
	www.huc.edu /midrash/genstud.html (834 words)

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