midrash
noun
mid·rash
ˈmi-ˌdräsh 
plural midrashim
mi-ˈdrä-shəm
1
: a haggadic or halachic exposition of the underlying significance of a Bible text
2
: a collection of midrashim
3
capitalized
: the midrashic literature written during the first Christian millennium
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Each book uses a traditional storytelling structure — lyrics, midrash, folk tales — while pushing at the edges of what a form can contain, cramming it with modern human concerns, triumphs and tragedies.
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
The commissions will begin later this year with a beit midrash, or study period, for the writers, spearheaded by Sabrina Sojourner — herself a Jew of color who serves as a Rockville, Md.-based community chaplain promoting diversity and inclusion among Jews.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
As many as 1,100 adult students would attend lectures tailored to secular Jews and aimed at democratizing the kind of Jewish learning that was typically restricted to the beit midrash, or formal house of Jewish study.
—Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
Typically, midrash would start wherever there was something unusual in the text.
—oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021
Scripture was a performative art, such as the intensely emotional and argumentative art of Jewish midrash.
—Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2019
Nor does the average WeWork have a beit midrash, or Jewish study hall, filled with Torah books and other religious texts.
—Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
At Mt. Sinai, God’s voice, in midrash, was heard communally, but was so overwhelming that only the first letter, aleph, was sounded.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
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Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
The commissions will begin later this year with a beit midrash, or study period, for the writers, spearheaded by Sabrina Sojourner — herself a Jew of color who serves as a Rockville, Md.-based community chaplain promoting diversity and inclusion among Jews.
—Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2022
As many as 1,100 adult students would attend lectures tailored to secular Jews and aimed at democratizing the kind of Jewish learning that was typically restricted to the beit midrash, or formal house of Jewish study.
—Jackie Hajdenberg, Sun Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2022
Typically, midrash would start wherever there was something unusual in the text.
—oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2021
Scripture was a performative art, such as the intensely emotional and argumentative art of Jewish midrash.
—Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2019
Nor does the average WeWork have a beit midrash, or Jewish study hall, filled with Torah books and other religious texts.
—Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
At Mt. Sinai, God’s voice, in midrash, was heard communally, but was so overwhelming that only the first letter, aleph, was sounded.
—Jerome Groopman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
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“Midrash.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/midrash. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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