aggadah

The term aggadah (that was preceded in the early Jewish literature by the term haggadot) refers to statements that are not Scripturally dependent and that pertain to ethics, traditions, actions of the Rabbis, and the like.

Midrash and Aggadah: Terminology. 2009

For instance, she wrote poems resonant with Jewish themes, and labored to bring aggadah and Psalms to Russian readers through her imaginative interpretations and fastidious translations from the Hebrew.

Feiga Izrailevna Kogan. 2009

Together with and following some of the aggadic traditions, we have added explanations or comments that explicate the aggadah and place it within the richly textured fabric of the Rabbinic world.

Midrash and Aggadah: Introduction and Sources. 2009

Many passages in the aggadah present the childless marriage as a situation where human needs and feelings overrule legal prescriptions.

Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism. 2009

Midrash continues to denote the exegetical activity of derashah, but also what can be deduced from the Biblical exposition, as well as everything that accrued around a specific Biblical book, whether aggadic (= non-legal) or halakhic (which are known, respectively, as midrashei aggadah and midrashei halakhah).

Midrash and Aggadah: Terminology. 2009

So, too, must the Jewish storytelling tradition, associated as it is with religious learning, midrash and aggadah.

Yiddish Literature in the United States. 2009

The two wives answer Adam with the proverb, “Physician, heal thyself,” thus telling Adam that he himself must act as he has decreed for them, for, according to the aggadah (Gen. Rabbah 23: 2), Adam withdrew from his wife for the one hundred and thirty years following the murder of Abel.

Adah 1: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

In current terminology the two terms, “midrash” and “aggadah,” refer to the two types of non-halakhic literary activity of the Rabbis.

Midrash and Aggadah: Terminology. 2009

Even more important is the fact that the researchers base their distinctions on disputes in the aggadah and do not at all relate — either directly or tangentially — to the entire corpus of disputes in which women appear.

Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai. 2009

In such instances, we chose a single tradition that provides the most complete picture of the aggadah, while preferring early to later sources.

Midrash and Aggadah: Introduction and Sources. 2009