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Haggadahor HaggadaIn Judaism, the text that guides the performance of ritual acts and prayers at the Seder dinner celebrating Passover. The Haggadah retells the story of Exodus, offering commentaries that provide a religious philosophy of Jewish history and supplying answers to the traditional questions asked by children at the beginning of the Seder. More broadly, the term Haggadah can refer to the part of rabbinical literature not concerned with the law (e.g., stories, parables, legends, history, and astronomy). |
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In any case, the passage quoted is a pericope of aggadic material
appended to the end of a tractate and certainly not intended to have any
serious halakhic application. The houses of study, the
battey ha-midrash, are the sites for the aggadic (narrative, non-legal)
modes of interpretation which Stone appears to favor. |
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