Sentences with word «midrash»

The rabbinic midrash on Exodus 15:13 was: «You have been gracious to us, for we had no good works to show» (cited in AJCT 40).

One last piece of background material to this parable is the saying in Midrash Lamentations Rabbah 4.2: «None of them (men of Jerusalem) would attend a banquet unless he was invited twice.»

The use of the term place to describe God is based on a rabbinic midrash from the third century (Genesis Raba, chapter 61).

They weren't really uneducated, they went to at least 7 years of Beit Midrash until their Bar Mitzvah where they had to memorize scripture, including the Mishnah and the Talmud.

«narration», for it achieved its aim very often by telling a story).9 Since the Semitic mind was quite unaccustomed to our kind of philosophical and abstract thought, midrash haggadah fulfilled a very important function in Jewish education.

The rabbis explain in an ancient midrash why the next verses in Jeremiah contain a promise of God: «Keep your voice from weeping... there is hope for your future... your children shall come back.»

Having established the historicity of the baptism event, Meier is adamant that the narrative must be seen as a Christian midrash, drawing on various OT themes to assert the primacy of Jesus over John.

In the Jewish midrash discussed in the article, the rabbis conclude that if God is one's surety there is credit» credo, «I believe.»

It was always an «inclination» rather than an essence and was seen in many midrash as a necessary motivator to building up a life in the world.

A splendid contemporary midrash on that text is a book by Leon Kass, Toward a More Natural Science (Free Press).

Which basically means I was doing midrash when I was in fifth grade, but I digress....

It is also possible to recognize other ways of reading the New Testament: not only midrash, but also typology and allegory are modes of reading which, given their assumptions and rules of discourse, are every bit as disciplined and «true» as that offered by the literalist renderings of the historical - critical method.

Bereshit Rabbah is midrash arising out of the Book of Genesis, and it's full of fascinating stuff.

If you're interested in contemporary / feminist midrash, don't miss The Five Books of Miriam: A Woman's Commentary on the Torah, edited by Ellen Frankel, which offers creative contemporary womens» response to Torah.

To quote a famous Midrash,

The book is almost an extended midrash on this line.

Messer leads the Simchat Torah Beit Midrash congregation in Colorado, which describes itself as a community of Jewish and non-Jewish believers in «Yeshua,» or Jesus Christ.

Classical midrash — Jewish exegetical commentary — explores many facets of Esther.

That type which led to a clear and more precise understanding of the law as it was to be observed in one's own daily life was called midrash halachah (lit, «walking», because it showed the mode of behavior in which one should walk).

Of course, during the time of Jesus it was normal, because all males over 14 would have known the whole of the Old Testament by heart (after Bet Midrash) and would have been taught how to interpret Scripture.

In Mars Hill's Midrash forum, posts from which resurfaced and circulated this week, Driscoll posted blunt and emotional comments critical of feminism, same - sex sexual behavior, and «sensitive emasculated» men, all under the pseudonym «William Wallace II.»

[10] Midrash B'reschit Rabba Berlin 1909 - in Levene, A., JJie Syrian Manuscripts on the Pentateuch in the Migana Collection, London 1951 p. 134.

The almost - sacrifice of Isaac is foregrounded; Christ on the Cross, the tree of new life, is the background, a poignant midrash on its Jewish meaning.

The approach he has adopted is clearly not without risks, and the result reads more like an updated midrash or targum than a translation in any generally accepted sense.

If the Torah and Midrash saw breastfeeding as merely a feeding method, Moses would have nursed from an Egyptian woman and the story would have ended.

«Geometric String Star Holiday Napkin Rings Main An Amazing Archeological Site In Meron, Midrash Rashbi»

Noted rabbis give more in - depth shiurim to attendees on Shabbat or weekday evenings, usually in the local synagogue or beth midrash (study hall).45.

On Wednesday, March 21, 2018, at 7:45 pm, Acclaimed fiber artist Laurie Wohl will give a presentation titled Textiles and Visual Midrash.

The Artists Beit Midrash at Temple Emanuel / Streicker Center culminates this year in the exhibit «Mystical Images».

I love the idea of Midrash, but the literature seems so vast and I feel overwhelmed.

Like Abraham and Moses in the ancient midrash, leaders Ariel, Mahmud, George and Tony step into the aftermath and lay more blame.

(II, 105) Having established the historicity of the baptism event, Meier is adamant that the narrative must be seen as a Christian midrash, drawing on various OT themes to assert the primacy of Jesus over John.

Consider this ancient Jewish midrash.

Instead of seeing such traditional readings as naïve or simply wrong, interpreters now ask about the assumptions and values that govern the reading practices of Christian typological and allegorical exegesis and of Rabbinic midrash.

7.13 is used as descriptive of the Messiah's coming to God, not of his coming to earth: Midrash on Ps.

I put this question out to some of my Rabbis Without Borders colleagues, and in addition to seconding the Bereshit Rabbah idea, they recommended Searching for Meaning in Midrash: Lessons for Everyday Living by Michael Katz and Gershon Schwartz and Reading the Book: Making the Bible a Timeless Text by Rabbi Burt Visotzky.

The statement and the paragraph it introduces look like a traditional expansion or midrash of the saying that now follows.

Aronofsky sees his interpretation of the Genesis story as part of the midrash tradition, in which Jewish teachers create stories meant to explain the deeper truths of the Tanakh.