Agada

The term Agada, "narrative," is wofully insufficient to describe the diverse material that falls under this head, for it comprehends all the discursive elements that come up in the legal discussions in the old Babylonian and Palestinian academies.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

There is a poetic half, let us say a homiletic half, what we call Agada, as distinct from the legal portion called Halacha.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

I started with "Agada" by Hanina Karchevsky and ended up grappling with Beethoven's Romance No. 1 in F Major.

unknown title 2009

I started with "Agada" by Hanina Karchevsky and ended up grappling with Beethoven's Romance No. 1 in F Major.

unknown title 2009

Feminist Jewish journals such as Lilith and Bridges feature their work, as does the Jewish literary journal Agada, edited by Reuven Goldfarb, and the politically based magazine Tikkun, of which Marge Piercy is poetry editor.

Poetry in the United States. 2009

So and so let it happen to me, if in all my life I ever saw the book Agada above once; and then I found a hundred seventy-and-five sections of the law, where it is written, 'The Lord hath said, hath spoken, hath commanded.'

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

The philosophy in the Talmud, rather than the philosophy of it, has been made the subject of separate treatment just as the whole of the Agada has been drawn out of the Talmud and published as a separate work.

Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala Various

Besides the Halaka and Agada are full of interpretations of Biblical texts which are very far from the literal and have little to do with the context.

A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

Beautiful as the Agada is, and with all its profundity, it lacks breadth.

Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900

In the Agada the learned jurist and formalist appears transformed into a sage or poet, conversing with the people in a warm, cordial tone, about the phenomena of nature, history, and life.

Jewish History : an essay in the philosophy of history 1900