By William Henry Green
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The last of these chapters then seeks to expose the operations that structure nonhalakhic discourse in the Talmud. Where Do Aggadic Passages Occur in the Talmud? Overwhelmingly, Talmudic aggadah is embedded in a halakhic context. Occasionally, an aggadic passage (or several together) seems quite independent of its surrounding text and, rarely, aggadah goes on at length to become a lengthy series of aggadot. In three of the tractates in the sample, including all of tractate Shevuot, there was little aggadah indeed, roughly between 1 and 3 percent of the whole.
Levi’s anathema of those who write such books, speak from them, or listen to such presentations is followed by his account of the one occasion when he looked into one and discovered an admittedly fine insight into Abraham’s longevity. ”68 The same play of two attitudes occurs in the report that R. Yo±anan and Resh Lakish deeply studied an aggadic book on Shabbat. ) objection, “But this material was not given so as to be written,” and the response—ultimately the classic justification for writing down other bodies of the Oral Torah—“When necessity demands it [we invoke Ps.
This chapter describes the broad, external characteristics of the aggadic sample. The next chapter delves into its thematic content and the customary manners of expressing it. The last of these chapters then seeks to expose the operations that structure nonhalakhic discourse in the Talmud. Where Do Aggadic Passages Occur in the Talmud? Overwhelmingly, Talmudic aggadah is embedded in a halakhic context. Occasionally, an aggadic passage (or several together) seems quite independent of its surrounding text and, rarely, aggadah goes on at length to become a lengthy series of aggadot.