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Additions in the Torah that were told orally but we probably don't know if that's the accurate story because it was passed down so many times and some midrashim clash with one another

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It is a story that doesnt have textual support but is there in order to explain something the torah left out or to make something more clear 

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It is a story that doesnt have textual support but is there in order to explain something the torah left out or to make something more clear 

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It addresses confusing or misleading words phrases or naratives

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It addresses confusing or misleading words phrases or naratives

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Like interpretations of Torah, maybe adding in details from oral Torah that isn't written in the Torah. For some reason it makes me think of Mushuls (stories with a lesson/example of something), but thats probably just because they sound similar

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Like interpretations of Torah, maybe adding in details from oral Torah that isn't written in the Torah. For some reason it makes me think of Mushuls (stories with a lesson/example of something), but thats probably just because they sound similar

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they are uinterortaions of the text that are more like storytelling to clarify something confusing or a left out detail, or to explain a disconnect of events or a reason for a characters behavior

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they are uinterortaions of the text that are more like storytelling to clarify something confusing or a left out detail, or to explain a disconnect of events or a reason for a characters behavior

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it addresses any holes in narratives, or if things seem to happen out of order

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it addresses any holes in narratives, or if things seem to happen out of order

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Additions and interpretations of the torah 

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Additions and interpretations of the torah 

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It is infused with the commentators opinions biases and time period

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It is infused with the commentators opinions biases and time period

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Goal is to help us understand parts of the texts that are left out or not clear 

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Goal is to help us understand parts of the texts that are left out or not clear 

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interpretations are often fueled by bias, the person writing it usually has a point they want to prove

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interpretations are often fueled by bias, the person writing it usually has a point they want to prove

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arent there like two kinds of Midrash, like midrash aagadha and midrash halacha?

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arent there like two kinds of Midrash, like midrash aagadha and midrash halacha?

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I think that midrashim can be on both the oral and written torah??

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I think that midrashim can be on both the oral and written torah??

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it like adresses questions or words that are confusing in the text 

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it like adresses questions or words that are confusing in the text 

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it has to be based at least somewhat in fact

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it has to be based at least somewhat in fact

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they are more like drashim because they often conenct difenrt oarts of the text and stories to dveeloep greate runertaidng of a singke perosns character or role - often branch off form thubgs implied from the text 

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they are more like drashim because they often conenct difenrt oarts of the text and stories to dveeloep greate runertaidng of a singke perosns character or role - often branch off form thubgs implied from the text 

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There are many different midrashim on the same texts and many famous rabbis who wrote many midrashim throughout torah

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There are many different midrashim on the same texts and many famous rabbis who wrote many midrashim throughout torah

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Originally, midrash spread through sermons that preached the stories in synagogue. this is important because it means that these stories could have changed and lost some of their main points  

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Originally, midrash spread through sermons that preached the stories in synagogue. this is important because it means that these stories could have changed and lost some of their main points  

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It was originally oral and then it became written 

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It was originally oral and then it became written 

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Midrash Rabbah Bereshit and Midrash Rabbah Vayikrah weren't even written by the same authors

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Made up of Aggadic and Halachic, though its hard to tell which is which. Midrash is a collection of interpretations.

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Made up of Aggadic and Halachic, though its hard to tell which is which. Midrash is a collection of interpretations.

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The story-esque half of the midrashim is called Aggadah (Halachah and Agadah).

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That the reason people think Midrash is a specific thing is because someone published a book with a bunch of Midrashim and called it The Midrash

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That the reason people think Midrash is a specific thing is because someone published a book with a bunch of Midrashim and called it The Midrash

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Midrash creates continuity between the ancient times and the times after the bet hamikdash.

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Works both in halachic and Agadic realms 

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Works both in halachic and Agadic realms 

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Aggadic is like stories, and Halachic is the laws, and sometimes it's unclear which catagory something falls under

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Aggadic is like stories, and Halachic is the laws, and sometimes it's unclear which catagory something falls under

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Put together through varius authers over hundreds of years. generally from 400 to 1200 CE

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Put together through varius authers over hundreds of years. generally from 400 to 1200 CE

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Madrish works with both halachick (laws) and Aggada (stories and imaginative literature)

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Madrish works with both halachick (laws) and Aggada (stories and imaginative literature)

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Midrash means the process of interpreting 

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Midrash means the process of interpreting 

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midrash literature is  so significant it is seen as the central enterprise of all jewish religious writings until the modern period

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midrash literature is  so significant it is seen as the central enterprise of all jewish religious writings until the modern period

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It was orally passed around before it was written down

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It was orally passed around before it was written down

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it isn't one "book", more of a process/activity

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it isn't one "book", more of a process/activity

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Interpretation is an evolving process that cannot be contained in one or more books.

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Interpretation is an evolving process that cannot be contained in one or more books.

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the story-like part of midrashim is called aggadah

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the story-like part of midrashim is called aggadah

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halakha and aggadah is connected to midrash (i'm still not super clear how)

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halakha and aggadah is connected to midrash (i'm still not super clear how)

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Before it was written down, it was told oraly and spread by the sermons who preached in the synagogues. 

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Before it was written down, it was told oraly and spread by the sermons who preached in the synagogues. 

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Midrash was influenced by the politics, time period/overall environment so that halacha remains relevant  

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Midrash was influenced by the politics, time period/overall environment so that halacha remains relevant  

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midrash exists as a way to resolve conflict where there is something ambiguous in the text 

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midrash exists as a way to resolve conflict where there is something ambiguous in the text 

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tries to resolve a crisis with traditons from the past 

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tries to resolve a crisis with traditons from the past 

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when there is cultural and traditional tension Midrash will be used to "heal" this tension

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when there is cultural and traditional tension Midrash will be used to "heal" this tension

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midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation so that it can remain relevant. 

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midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation so that it can remain relevant. 

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my take away is that madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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my take away is that madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation

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midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation

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madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant.

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-raanan

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1. The style of the Bible is lachonic, so Midrash comes in to fill in the gaps and smooth over confusion.
2. Midrash is there to make the text relevant to contemporary audience. Most noticable in period after distruction of Temple. Also to make sense of things they don't contemporarily believe in (such as an eye for an eye). Also insersion of Helenistic ideas.
3. Console the people after loss of the Temple, and make sure they keep their faith.

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They believed that reenterpretation was part of Torah.
What would have happened without Midrash?
No Temple, so sacrifice, no people. The religion would have disapeared.