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# midrash

«midrash» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **A Jewish way of explaining the Bible by looking closely…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

A Jewish way of explaining the Bible by looking closely at its words and telling stories about them; also a book of such explanations. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/midrash/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

Interpretation: Midrash collections such as Tanchuma are made by the rabbis of the Talmud period. They fill gaps in the Torah's stories and draw out lessons and laws.

### examples

- Midrash Tanchuma 1:5 on [Genesis 1:1], Zohar 1:3a inter alia.] [note 8: Though the phrase is usually translated the ‘Thirty-Two Paths’, I find that the alliteration of ‘Wondrous Ways of Wisdom’ neatly approximates the SY’s choice of poetic vocabulary. (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/midrash/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «midrash» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/M/midrash/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.