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Beginning with section 15, Exodus Rabbah contains homilies and homiletical fragments to the first verses of the Scripture sections. Many of the homilies are taken from the Tanḥumas, though sections 15, 16–19, 20, 30, and others show that the author had access also to homilies in many other sources.
Jellinek thinks [9] that there were several aggadic midrashim to Song of Songs, each of which interpreted the book differently, one referring it to the exodus from Egypt, another to the revelations on Mount Sinai, and a third to the Tabernacle or the Temple in Jerusalem; and that all these midrashim were then combined into one work, which (with various additions) forms the present Shir ha ...
Midrash Rabba or Midrash Rabbah can refer to part of or the collective whole of specific aggadic midrashim on the books of the Torah and the Five Megillot, generally having the term "Rabbah" (רבה ), meaning "great," as part of their name. These midrashim are as follows: Genesis Rabbah; Exodus Rabbah; Leviticus Rabbah; Numbers Rabbah ...
This is a halakhic commentary on Exodus, concentrating on the legal sections, from Exodus 12 to 35. It derives halakha from Biblical verses. This midrash collection was redacted into its final form around the 3rd or 4th century; its contents indicate that its sources are some of the oldest midrashim, dating back possibly to the time of Rabbi ...
The Mekhilta begins with Exodus 12, this being the first legal section found in Exodus. That this is the beginning is shown by the Nathan ben Jehiel and the Seder Tannaim v'Amoraim . [ 22 ] In like manner, Nissim ben Jacob proves in his Mafteach to Shab . 106b that the conclusion of the Mekhilta which he knew corresponded with that of the ...
The Songs of Joy (watercolor circa 1896–1902 by James Tissot) Song of the Sea from a Sefer Torah. The Song of the Sea (Hebrew: שירת הים, Shirat HaYam; also known as Az Yashir Moshe and Song of Moses, or Mi Chamocha) is a poem that appears in the Book of Exodus of the Hebrew Bible, at Exodus 15:1–18.
There are many different recensions of Midrash Tanhuma, although the main ones are the standard printed edition, first published in Constantinople in 1520/1522 (and then again in Venice in 1545 and Mantua in 1563), and the Buber recension, [5] published by Salomon Buber in 1885 based on the manuscript MS Oxford Neubauer 154 for the base text as well as four other Oxford manuscripts. [6]
The song apparently is inspired by Psalm 74:16 ("Yours is the day, Yours is the night") and by a Midrashic passage (Genesis Rabbah 6:2) which enlarges on those words. The authorship and date of composition are unknown, it was originally sung year-round at meals, it was not part of the Seder in the 11th century but came to be part of the Seder ...