Capitolo 25
_Mechilta_ (to Exodus); the _Sifra_ (to Leviticus); the _Sifre_ (to
Numbers and Deuteronomy); the _Pesikta_ (to various _Sections_ of the
Bible from which his/her name); the _Tanchuma_ (to the Pentateuch); the
_Midrash Rabbah_ (the "Midrash Gran", to the Pentateuches and the Five
Rolls of paper of Esther, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and the Song of
Songs); and the _Midrash Haggadol_ (identical in name, and in contained
similar to, but not identical with, the _Midrash Rabbah_); together with
a big number of picked up Midrashim as the _Yalkut_ and an innkeeper
smaller jobs, very of what more existing is.
I concern to the Midrash in his purely literary aspects, we find his/her style
to be far more polish of that of the Talmud, although portions of the
Halachic Midrash is identical in character with the Talmud. The Midrash
it has many passages in that the simple graces of match of form the beauty of
idea. But to a large extent the style it is simple and prosaic, rather than
richly adorned or poetic. It produces his/her effects from the rightest
he/she wants to say, and a modern reader strikes as missing distinction in form. The
I level dead of expression of common place, however you/he/she is made from
bright passages of frequent event. Prayers, proverbs, parables,
and fables, scores likewise the pages of Talmud and Midrash. The venerable old man
_proverbs_ of the Hebrews is more than french fries mere from the block of
experiments. They was poems from reason for their use of metaphor,,
the alliteration, assonance and the imagination. The show of proverbs of Rabbinical
all these poetic qualities.
He who steal from a sense of smell of thief of theft.--Charity is the
salt of Wealth.--Silence is an enclosure on the Wisdom.--Very old
camels bring the skins of their youth.--Two dry batons and one
green scorching together.--If the priest steals the god, on that that
can one swear?--All the dyers cannot bleach an imperial crow
wing.--In a good from that you have drunk, throw anybody
stone.--Alas for the bread that the baker calls bad.--Calumny