Levine, Halacha and
Aggada: Translating Robert Cover's Nomos and Narrative, 1998 Utah L.
Talmudic studies, investigation the sugya, variant readings and
aggada. New York and Jerusalem: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
Heschel's sense of Torah and Jewish doing is informed by rabbinic theology and
aggada, albeit innovative and not necessarily acceptable to guardians of Torah-true Judaism.
The true function of midrash
aggada is to use the biblical text as a means of delivering a message.
Fresh fruit and vintage wine; the ethics and wisdom of the
Aggada.
The Guide is to the Mishneh Torah as
aggada is to halacha.
No topic under the scrutiny of the rabbis is without this enigmatic dance of law and narrative, halakha and
aggada. Alongside the legal discussion about women's hair-covering is the aggadic and mystical imagery.
Furthermore there is a whole vocabulary relating to angels of which we can see the seeds in the biblical texts themselves, and which starts to develop in the Talmud, the Midrash and the
Aggada and expands amazingly in kabbalistic literature, the Zohar, the great classics of Jewish mysticism and the more specialized books of a science that borders, on the practical kabbala and magic.
A critique of Heschel's views of the relations of
aggada and halakha brings the issue into focus.
Studies in the Spiritual World of
Aggada. Tel Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad, 1981.
Limited to the latter six of the twelve minor prophets, the volume deals with the origin and development of TJ from the viewpoint of the historical allusions (chapter two), the Hebrew Vorlage (chapter three), the "additional targums" (chapter six), the
aggada (chapter seven), the relationship of TJ to the Peshitta (chapter eight), and the redaction (chapter ten).