Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun Talmudic literature that does not deal with law but is still part of Jewish tradition
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Besides my earlier point of the 1609 publications of translated haggadot at the beginning of the age of reason should refute your argument that haggada in the vernacular is recent.
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A haggada from, say 1320 in German may have disproved my point, but none exist.
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A haggada from, say 1320 in German may have disproved my point, but none exist.
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The writing of this midrash is fifteenth-century work; it contains the Book of Tobias as a haggada on the promise Jacob makes to give tithes to God (Gen., xxviii, 22).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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