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==Midrash==

==Midrash==

Midrash Aggada ("telling") is all the midrashim ("im" plural) that is not of legal, or statutory nature.  

Midrash Aggada ("telling") is all the midrashim ("im" plural) that are not of legal, or statutory nature.  

The traditional Midrash is a type of Jewish interpretive literature (exegetical) based upon the Hebrew Bible (Tenakh) emanating from the  period of the development of the Mishnah (the first part of the Talmud) roughly about the first two centuries A.D. and continu9ing on for centries.  Midrash come from the word Darash - "to study", or "to search out" and is one of the four methods used in exegesis of the Bible (These four are 1. Peshat = the meaning simply on the surface of the text, 2. remez  = the hint or clue to the deeper meaning than the surface, 2. Darash =  a more searching of the all facets relevant to the text and involving stories, customs, sayings, even analysis of the  Hebrew letters, and relating to all facets of life, and 4. Sod = the secret and hidden, sometimes esoteric meaning of the text.}  

The traditional Midrash is a type of Jewish interpretive literature (exegetical) based upon the Hebrew Bible (Tenakh) emanating from the  period of the development of the Mishnah (the first part of the Talmud) roughly about the first two centuries A.D. and continu9ing on for centries.  Midrash come from the word Darash - "to study", or "to search out" and is one of the four methods used in exegesis of the Bible (These four are 1. Peshat = the meaning simply on the surface of the text, 2. remez  = the hint or clue to the deeper meaning than the surface, 2. Darash =  a more searching of the all facets relevant to the text and involving stories, customs, sayings, even analysis of the  Hebrew letters, and relating to all facets of life, and 4. Sod = the secret and hidden, sometimes esoteric meaning of the text.}  

(here be it noted that the Greek word for "you" is "se"(accusive case) sounding exactly like the Hebrew word for "lamb"). So the Midrash adds in the mind of Abraham " And if God will not provide a lamb for the sacrifice, then it is ''you'', that are that sacrifice, my son!"

(here be it noted that the Greek word for "you" is "se"(accusive case) sounding exactly like the Hebrew word for "lamb"). So the Midrash adds in the mind of Abraham " And if God will not provide a lamb for the sacrifice, then it is ''you'', that are that sacrifice, my son!"

The unity of father and son in the sacrifice is shown by Midrashic statement on the biblical verse, " And so they went both of them ''together (Yachdav'')" - One to slaughter and one to be slaughtered.  

The unity of father and son in the sacrifice is shown by Midrashic statement on the biblical verse, " And so they went both of them ''together (Yachdav'')" - One to slaughter and one to be slaughtered.

==The Principal Midrashic Literature==

==The Principal Midrashic Literature==