Midrashim are true but not always to be taken as LITERALLY True!In other words [as I stated]:
Actually I think Hazal were doing political comments regarding their own time and used proxies just like Gulliver [lhavdil]Thus:
- Attacks on Esav/Edom were frequently veiled attacks on Rome
- And attacks on Sodom were frequently veiled attacks against the hedonisitc Hellenic culture.
KT
RRW
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I would say that it is pretty obvious but in these days...
Obviously the Miamonidean approach is favoured by both commenter and blogger
I don't Think the average Yid knows to take these Aggadic comments as similes or metaphors
How many Teachers Teach this in Jewish Day Schools?
High Schools?
Yeshivos
Keep Spreading the Word
RRW
good point - my daughter has come home from school thinking that various midrashim are true (b/c that is how it is taught at her school) - my boys (more MO school than daughter) have had the good fortune of a teacher who would emphasize pshat and while she appreciated the stories my boys would bring in from "the little midrash says" she also gave it context
incidentally, the little midrash says books are fantastic fro generating an interest in tanach - and i am not sure a focus on pshat would get the same results from my kids
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