Sefer HaBloggadah: An Introduction to Sefer HaAggada
Richard Friedman
Sefer HaAggada (The Book of Legends) is the classic Bialik-Ravnitzky collection of aggadic (non-legal) material from Talmud and Midrash. Its contents are diverse — midrashim (comments supplementing Bible stories); stories about the Rabbis themselves; and stories and ideas about the Land and People of Israel, Torah, Shabbat, etc. The Sefer HaBloggadah project started at last year’s Institute uses a blog to facilitate study of this text, one page per day. The course will study sample pages covered by the project so far, and will introduce people to the variety of Rabbinic aggada. Participants may volunteer to present one of these texts in the Shabbat afternoon siyyum on part one of the book.
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Categories
- Intermediate Text
- Morning Course
Richard Friedman has taught text classes at several Institutes. He also teaches Talmud and Rashi’s Torah commentary at his shul and at the Jewish Study Center in Washington. He is a lawyer with the federal government.
