What do we know about Midrash by Tamar Rabinowitz https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851 Our developing ideas en-us 2020-10-11 23:32:22 UTC 2021-12-02 19:30:11 UTC hello@padlet.com It is interpretation for the text https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833940739 2020-10-15 20:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833940739 it's ideas/interpretations of pshat https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833940833 2020-10-15 20:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833940833 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941129 2020-10-15 20:37:20 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941129 It addresses confusing or misleading words phrases or naratives https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941269 2020-10-15 20:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941269 lsealman20221 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941274 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]]> 2020-10-15 20:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941274 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941335 2020-10-15 20:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941335 it addresses any holes in narratives, or if things seem to happen out of order https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941806 2020-10-15 20:37:36 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941806 Additions and interpretations of the torah https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941995 2020-10-15 20:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833941995 It's an interpretation of the text rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942031 2020-10-15 20:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942031 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942100 2020-10-15 20:37:44 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942100 is an interpretation of the text sasayag20211 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942201 2020-10-15 20:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942201 It teaches us lessons rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942392 2020-10-15 20:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942392 It is infused with the commentators opinions biases and time period https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942562 2020-10-15 20:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833942562 Goal is to help us understand parts of the texts that are left out or not clear https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943170 2020-10-15 20:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943170 interpretations are often fueled by bias, the person writing it usually has a point they want to prove https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943357 2020-10-15 20:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943357 arent there like two kinds of Midrash, like midrash aagadha and midrash halacha? sasayag20211 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943721 2020-10-15 20:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833943721 I think that midrashim can be on both the oral and written torah?? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833944350 2020-10-15 20:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833944350 it like adresses questions or words that are confusing in the text sasayag20211 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945147 2020-10-15 20:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945147 It's there to fill in loopholes rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945841 2020-10-15 20:39:18 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945841 it has to be based at least somewhat in fact https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945971 2020-10-15 20:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833945971 Can teach us lessons and morals https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833946112 2020-10-15 20:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833946112 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833946591 2020-10-15 20:39:37 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833946591 There are many different midrashim on the same texts and many famous rabbis who wrote many midrashim throughout torah https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833947131 2020-10-15 20:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833947131 Makes the text relevant rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833948559 2020-10-15 20:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833948559 It was originally oral and then it became written https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833974918 2020-10-15 20:52:06 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833974918 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833975210 2020-10-15 20:52:14 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833975210 lsealman20221 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833976708 Midrash Rabbah Bereshit and Midrash Rabbah Vayikrah weren't even written by the same authors]]> 2020-10-15 20:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833976708 Made up of Aggadic and Halachic, though its hard to tell which is which. Midrash is a collection of interpretations. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833979433 2020-10-15 20:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/833979433 lsealman20221 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842844661 The story-esque half of the midrashim is called Aggadah (Halachah and Agadah).]]> 2020-10-19 21:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842844661 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 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842847677 2020-10-19 21:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842847677 lsealman20221 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842848062 Midrash creates continuity between the ancient times and the times after the bet hamikdash.]]> 2020-10-19 21:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842848062 Works both in halachic and Agadic realms rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842849921 2020-10-19 21:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842849921 Aggadic is like stories, and Halachic is the laws, and sometimes it's unclear which catagory something falls under https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842850458 2020-10-19 21:16:51 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842850458 Put together through varius authers over hundreds of years. generally from 400 to 1200 CE https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842850880 2020-10-19 21:17:05 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842850880 Madrish works with both halachick (laws) and Aggada (stories and imaginative literature) https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842853183 2020-10-19 21:18:20 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842853183 Midrash means the process of interpreting https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842854878 2020-10-19 21:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842854878 It's the process of interpreting rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856002 2020-10-19 21:19:49 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856002 midrash literature is so significant it is seen as the central enterprise of all jewish religious writings until the modern period https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856187 2020-10-19 21:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856187 It was orally passed around before it was written down rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856698 2020-10-19 21:20:09 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842856698 it isn't one "book", more of a process/activity https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842861377 2020-10-19 21:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842861377 It is the process of interpreting https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842863762 2020-10-19 21:23:48 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842863762 Interpretation is an evolving process that cannot be contained in one or more books. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842864112 2020-10-19 21:23:59 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842864112 the story-like part of midrashim is called aggadah https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842864947 2020-10-19 21:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842864947 halakha and aggadah is connected to midrash (i'm still not super clear how) https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842866466 2020-10-19 21:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842866466 Before it was written down, it was told oraly and spread by the sermons who preached in the synagogues. sasayag20211 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842867810 2020-10-19 21:25:55 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842867810 midrash exists as a way to resolve conflict where there is something ambiguous in the text https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842868037 2020-10-19 21:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842868037 tries to resolve a crisis with traditons from the past sasayag20211 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842872475 2020-10-19 21:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842872475 when there is cultural and traditional tension Midrash will be used to "heal" this tension https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842899518 2020-10-19 21:43:58 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842899518 my take away is that madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842900574 2020-10-19 21:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842900574 Midrash was influenced by the politics, time period/overall environment so that halacha remains relevant https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842900932 2020-10-19 21:44:45 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842900932 midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation rarnold2021 https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901058 2020-10-19 21:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901058 midrash exists as a way to resolve tension and create continuity with religious law and expectation so that it can remain relevant. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901160 2020-10-19 21:44:55 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901160 madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901383 2020-10-19 21:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901383 madras is influenced by the time period in which it was written so that halacha will remain relevant. https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901455 -raanan]]> 2020-10-19 21:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/842901455 Reasons for Midrash: https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/846449506 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.]]> 2020-10-20 19:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/846449506 Why did the Rabbis do it? https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/846481109 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.]]> 2020-10-20 19:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/trabinowitz/tzzf3q07s2xw6ncm1631568851/wish/846481109