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Monica ([personal profile] cellio) wrote2005-11-30 09:49 pm
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midrash collections

Last week some of you gave me suggestions for sources of midrash grouped by parsha (or verse, in some cases). Today I asked my rabbi the same question and he had these additional suggestions:

First, Sefer Ha-Aggadah by Bialik and Ravnitzky is the book to get, he said. (Meta-comment: I wrote down "Bialek" and "Sefer Haggadah"; Amazon search didn't get that for me, but Google did -- and once I had the corrections I could find it on Amazon.)

He mentioned two others that are grouped by topic rather than by parsha. For the first, I wrote down "Montifiore's Jewish Anthology" but that's not turning up results for me (including via Google book search), so I may have gotten something wrong. The other is Voices of Wisdom by Klagsbrun.

[identity profile] xiphias.livejournal.com 2005-12-01 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I LOVE Sefer Ha-Aggadah. Favorite quote from it so far: "Everything that exists on land exists in the sea, except the weasel."

I have no idea what it means, but I now occasionally go around yelling, "SEAWEASEL!"

[identity profile] magid.livejournal.com 2005-12-01 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
*giggle*