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Still more inexact and misleading is the term "Midrash Rabbah to the Five Books of the Pentateuch and the Five Megillot," as found on the title-page of the two parts in the much-used Vilna edition. After Zunz, it is not necessary to point out that the Midrash Rabbah consists of 10 entirely different midrashim.
Simon Duran, in quoting this midrash, says that it is a Judean aggadic collection. [4] The sources which it uses directly are from the Jerusalem Talmud.No direct borrowing from the Babylonian Talmud appears, and, although it contains many interpretations and comments found in the Babylonian Talmud, most of them vary greatly in form, the agreement being confined to their contents.
Leviticus Rabbah, Vayikrah Rabbah, or Wayiqra Rabbah is a homiletic midrash to the Biblical book of Leviticus (Vayikrah in Hebrew). It is referred to by Nathan ben Jehiel (c. 1035–1106) in his Arukh as well as by Rashi (1040–1105). [1] According to Leopold Zunz, Hai Gaon (939-1038) and Nissim knew and made use of it.
Bereshit Rabbah or Vayikra Rabbah may also have furnished the long passage in parashah 1, in connection with the explanation of the first word (ויהי). Parashah 6 shows several traces of a later period: especially remarkable here [ 1 ] is the literal borrowing from Yosippon , where Mordechai 's dream, Mordechai's and Esther's prayers, and ...
as if the word "rabbah" belonged originally to the name of the amora, and that the name of the work, "Genesis Rabba", is an abbreviation of "Bereshit derabbi Hoshayah rabbah", is untenable for the reason that in the best manuscripts—and in a very old quotation—the name "Rabbi Hoshayah" stands without the addition "rabbah" in the first ...
The core of the Pesikta is old and must be classed together with Genesis Rabbah and Lamentations Rabbah.But the proems in the Pesikta, developed from short introductions to the exposition of the scripture into more independent homiletic structures, as well as the mastery of form apparent in the final formulas of the proems, indicate that the Pesikta belongs to a higher stage of midrashic ...
Numbers Rabbah (or Bamidbar Rabbah in Hebrew) is a religious text holy to classical Judaism. It is a midrash comprising a collection of ancient rabbinical homiletic interpretations of the Book of Numbers (Bamidbar in Hebrew). In the first printed edition of the work (Constantinople, 1512), it is called Bamidbar Sinai Rabbah.
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