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Midrash Rabba — widely studied are the Rabboth (great commentaries), a collection of ten midrashim on different books of the Bible (namely, the five books of the Torah and the Five Megillot). Although referred to collectively as the Midrash Rabbah, they are not a cohesive work, being written by different authors in different locales in ...
Midrash ha-Ḥefez (lit. "Midrash of desire"), or "Commentary of the Book of the Law", [ 1 ] is a Hebrew midrash written by the physician and Rabbi, Yihye ibn Suleiman al-Dhamari, otherwise known as Zechariah ben Solomon ha-Rofé , which he began to write in 1430 in Yemen and concluded some years later. [ 2 ]
This extensive and important midrash forms a complete commentary on Genesis and exemplifies all points of midrashic exegesis. It is divided into sections headed by prefaces. It is by these means distinguished from the tannaitic midrashim to the other books of the Torah, such as the Mekhilta, Sifra, and Sifre. Every chapter of the Genesis Rabbah ...
Soncino's Midrash Rabbah comprises a translation, with brief commentaries in its footnotes. The Soncino Haggadah is a translation and commentary on the Haggadah by Cecil Roth with the Hebrew text of Koren Publishers .
The Midrash on Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה רבה, romanized: Ēkhā Rabbāh) is a midrashic commentary to the Book of Lamentations. It is one of the oldest works of midrash, along with Genesis Rabbah and the Pesikta de-Rav Kahana .
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
The phrase "Midrash halakha" was first employed by Nachman Krochmal, [6] the Talmudic expression being Midrash Torah = "investigation of the Torah". [7] These interpretations were often regarded as corresponding to the real meaning of the scriptural texts; thus it was held that a correct elucidation of the Torah carried with it the proof of the halakha and the reason for its existence.
The first midrash on which the commentary was written is the Sifrah, and as a background for his commentary he wrote a treatise called "Ayelet HaShahar" in which he formulates 613 (Taryag) rules from which all the halachic laws are derived: 248 (Ramah) rules deal with the syntax of the law and 365 rules deal with semantic grammars and the ...