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Aggadah (Hebrew: אַגָּדָה, romanized: Aggāḏā, or הַגָּדָה Haggāḏā;
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אֲגַדְתָּא, romanized: Aggāḏṯā; 'tales', 'fairytale', 'lore')...
- Yosef, and Rav Nachman. Dean of the
Yeshiva in Pumbedita. Abba b. Bizna,
haggadist Rava (d. 352),
disciple of Rabbah, Rav Yosef, and Rav Nachman, and possibly...
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Amora (scholar) of the
fourth century, who is
occasionally mentioned as a
haggadist, and as
having handed down
certain halakic opinions. This article incorporates...
- literature. This was, for example, the name of the
father of the well-known
haggadist Tanḥum b. Ḥamilas (Bacher, Ag. Pal. Amor. iii.627). Josephus, Antiquities...
- number,
rather than upon the
decadic (10)
system adopted by the
later haggadists and
observable in the
Sefer Yetzirah. The
Pythagorean idea of the creative...
- from
those that have been
developed by the
exegetic principles of the
haggadists. The
uniqueness of the
Talmudic style of both
recording meaning and deriving...
-
aggadic utterances approach in
number and
contents those of the
Palestinian haggadists. The
Jerusalem Talmud has
preserved a
large number of his
halakhic and...
- (Shabbat 153a)
purity of soul and its
reward (ib. 152b).
Although the
haggadists took the
material for
their parables from
conditions of life with which...
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Talmudic school and
where he died.
Judah Vega was a good
preacher and
haggadist; his
small collection of sermons,
entitled Malke Yehudah,
appeared at...
- in his
haggadic interpretations he did not
always agree with the
older haggadists. He was
greatly respected by his contemporaries. This article incorporates...
