Midrash

In sections on sacred reading: analyzing the text, sacred viewing: watching the text, and sacred play: performing the text, they consider such topics as Harry Potter and the sacred text: fiction, reading, and meaning-making; Supernatural's Winchester Gospel: a fantastic Midrash; experiencing the sacred: The Hobbit as a holy text; until the end of the world: fans as messianic heroes in World of Warcraft, and Muslim women coplayers: intersecting religious, cultural, and fan identities.

We will start by presenting the idea of the film as midrash, engaging with the nature of midrashic tradition and introducing the film and its makers (Section 1).

Se trata de quince piezas literarias que reciben el nombre de madrashe, termino emparentado con la denominacion rabinica midrash. Este midrash es un comentario a la Escritura fruto de una <<busqueda>> (derash), en la que tambien tiene su lugar la tradicion oral.

Midrash is often described as "atomistic", or "versocentric", meaning that it focuses narrowly on specific details of a text rather than seeking to understand them in context.

Take, for example, Neusner's approach to midrash. Comparative Midrash: The Plan and Program of Genesus Rabba and Levitivcus Rabbah (1986) is illustrative of his take on the uses and abuse of aggadic midrash, that is, nonlegal ethical and hermeneutical pronouncements peppered with philosophical wisdom and a vast amount of folk tradition tied to a historical context, though aspects of it are legal and very close to the halakhic strands of the Talmud.

If you've studied classic Jewish texts, "Sodom" calls up a tradition stretching back from Rashi through the midrash to Genesis that alludes to wider principles of public responsibility--what we now call politics--that are as basic to Judaism as Torah study, prayer and Shabbat.

A multi-decade scholarly effort first published in Israel, the Hebrew Steinsaltz Talmud has long been a print staple of the beit midrash, while the English edition has been distributed by Random House and Koren Publishers.

The Rabbinical Exegetical Tradition: Midrash and the Zohar

Based on this analysis we can then, in section two, identify the historical context of the midrash and offer a tentative dating in section three.

It cites the Hebrew Bible, and Talmud, and the Midrash in the course of identifying humor in these writings, instances of irony, and examples of early humor and how they relate to contemporary Jewish culture and jokes.

The yeshiva's Beis Midrash, located in Beis Tefilah Yona Avraham, Ramat Beit Shemesh, will also serve as the World Center for all it's long distant learning projects.

Contributors in Jewish and Hebrew studies seek to enlarge the perspective on Midrash and midrashic creativity to show how it is a fundamental form of Jewish culture and has maintained an identifiable coherence and integrity in all its expressions over the course of two millennia.