The text used at the Seder on Passover is called the Haggadah, which roughly translates as “the story.” Though the sole Haggadah used to be a standard, traditional, commentary free Haggadah published ...
Jewish culture has always sought a balance between texts of the halachic, or legal realm, and those of the Aggadah, or narrative. Not only does the Aggadah explain the larger purpose of law, but it ...
The aggadah about Elisha ben Abuyah and R. Meir in Y. Ḥagigah 2:1 (77b–c) includes a striking interpretation and enactment of a verse from the book of Ruth. In the climactic scene, R. Meir spreads his ...
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