The word Midrash comes from the Hebrew root D-R-SH meaning "to inquire" or "to seek.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Midrash] Reference

The works to which the name Midrash is applied are the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters on Jewish Literature] Reference

Midrash is a process by which a mythological character is meticulously inserted into historical settings to add validity to an allegorical/symbolic message.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: June 6, 2006] Reference

The Midrash is a trifle more modest in this legendary assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

From another point of view, also, the Midrash is a poetical literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters on Jewish Literature] Reference

Beautiful as are the thoughts and fancies of the Talmudic rabbis, their Midrash was a purely national monument, closed by its form as by its language to the general world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria] Reference

Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

"Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Mahalath, daughter of Ishmael: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

Midrash in a manner suitable for the children of to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

A Midrash tells us that Potiphar's wife not only falsely accused.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Midrash (of which Midrashim is the plural form) occurs twice in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Midrash and the Targums as usual furnish much additional information.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

At the end of the Midrash of Samuel which I have, it is thus concluded.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

The Midrash repeats the same story, and adds, "His wealth was his ruin.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Midrash, for example, has been another important mode of feminist expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirituality in the United States.] Reference

Rebekah, too, was more beautiful than she (Midrash ha-Gadol, Gen. 1, p. 397).    From Wordnik.com.  [Abishag: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

In the Midrash it is, "And Esau and Jacob and his sons buried him," which fits the legend better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

They descended to Sheol until Hannah prayed for them, whereupon they rose (Midrash Samuel 5: 12).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

Midrash is the mechanism that permits Jews to generate new and multiple meanings from the Sacred Scriptures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Midrash] Reference

As the scholar James Kugel states so eloquently in his landmark 1983 article "Two Introductions to Midrash".    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Midrash] Reference

The Targum of Jonathan agrees with the version of the Midrash above, while another tradition makes Joseph marry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Rather, Solomon judged like his Maker, without witnesses, in the judgment of the prostitutes (Midrash Tehilim 72: 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Prostitutes as Mothers: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

She was named Zilpah after the place where her father had been taken prisoner (Midrash Aggadah, ed. Buber, Gen. 30: 2).    From Wordnik.com.  [Zilpah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

Rashi supposes that Keturah was one and the same with Hagar -- so the Midrash, the Targum Yerushalmi, and that of Jonathan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

The late Midrash uses the narrative of the Shunammite woman to depict the resurrection of the dead at the time of the Messiah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shunammite: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

Though the Midrash and two of the Targums, that of Jonathan and the Yerushalmi, tell the same fanciful story about these stones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

I think the plan now is to go to every part of NYC, sit in a Bet Midrash thus having spots for shabbat in every part of the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference

Another wonderful writer on Midrash is Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg whose three books also make Midrash accessible to the general reader.    From Wordnik.com.  [Understanding Midrash] Reference

Despite these gestures, Hannah would still weep, and one who weeps does not eat (because they lose their appetite) (Midrash Samuel 1: 8).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

When Hannah gave birth to Samuel, they saw how he deported himself and they said: “We see that this is the one” (Midrash Samuel 3: 4).    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannah: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference

His religious activity, to be sure, is restricted to the prayer services of the Temple, but his Temple is more like a Beth Midrash than a symphony hall and lyceum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference