Noun

(Midrashim)

A Rabbinic commentary on a text from the Hebrew Scripture.

The Rabbinic technique or tradition of such exegesis.

* 2007 , Karen Armstrong, The Bible: The Biography , Atlantic 2008, p. 82:

Midrash was not a purely intellectual pursuit and study was never an end in itself: it had to inspire practical action in the world.

Noun

A homiletic and non-legalistic exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly as recorded in the Talmud and Midrash. A parable that demonstrates a point of the Law in the Talmud.

* {{quote-book, year= 1725

, year_published= , author= Edward Chandler, Anthony Collins , by= , title= A defence of Christianity from the prophecies of the Old Testament: wherein are considered all the objections against this kind of proof : advanced in a late discourse of the grounds and reasons of the Christian religion , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=holPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344 , original= , chapter= Of the Allegorick or other Methods of citing Scripture, used by the Writers of the New Testament. , isbn= , edition= , publisher= James Knapton , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 344 , passage= They termed them also..Agada''''' in the ''Chaldee'', or..'''''Hagada'' in the ''Hebrew'' form, which are rendered in Philo, by the ''Greek ... }}

(obsolete) Text which is recited at during the first and second nights of Passover, focused on the freeing of Israel from Egyptian bondage as described in the Book of Exodus. (See also the more modern Haggadah)

* {{quote-book, year= 1881

, year_published= , author= Americus Featherman , by= , title= Social history of the races of mankind , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=K2ETAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158 , original= , chapter= Orthodox Jews of the East and Talmud Jews of Poland , isbn= , edition= , publisher= Trübner & Co. , location= London , editor= , volume= 5 , page= 158 , passage= The story of the delivery of Israel from Egyptian bondage is read in Hebrew by the chief of the house from a book called the agada , which is interwoven with hymns of praise and thanksgiving, and it also contains some legendary chapters entirely figurative in their sense and composition. }}