Aggadah

Aggadah ( Aramaic אגדה; German " announcement ", " story", " tale ", actually: "Gathering" ) refers, in contrast to the Halacha, the homiletic and non-statutory contents of the ancient rabbinic literature - mostly in connection of biblical texts and materials - reflect the religious thinking and illustrate, but are not considered as binding doctrine. Most elements of the Aggadah are over 2000 years old.

Aggadah and Halakhah

Halacha (law) and Aggadah ( narrative, Sage ) are two typical terms of the Talmudic / rabbinical teachings. There are the two main basic concepts of the Jewish tradition. The Halacha works with logic and Talmudic dialectics, to solve their law- related tasks, and establishes the particularistic community awareness of Judaism in all walks of life from the religious jurisprudence to ritual food provision. It embodies the "truth" and the norms of a religious community on the interpretation of laws. The Aggada contrast corresponds to the universalistic tendency in Judaism and the general human need to be able to accompany any regulatory, legal or rational order with a relevant story its meaning. Since this is about religious laws, and not to secular jurisprudence, Aggadah is often a tale of justice. They legitimized explained, justified and delivered to the belief in justice. Aggadot can be found next to the Talmud, especially in the Midrashim.

Includes the Halacha which deriving from the scripture of the Pentateuch laws and regulations that are set forth in the Talmudic texts further, the Aggada leaning free of the substances of Torah and Talmud. It is part of the Oral Torah ( תורה שבעל פה ) and explained this by saying, legends, parables, commentaries, as well as ethical and historical remarks and tries to bind Jewish knowledge and experience not only standard and the law, but through narrative to the people. Philosophically speaking or literary is the Halacha the "truth" or the legal content of such that Aggada however, is the experience channel to be bound in the knowledge of the people about narrative and language. Thus, the Aggadah is no superfluous, merely amusing accessories in the design process of law, but also guarantees at least equivalent to the rational and logical order of Halacha and the revealed law, the transmissibility of historical experiences and memories.

" The concept of Aggadah ," wrote in 1853 Zacharias Frankel, " is an objective, a whole literature in comprehensive, which one might say is more tactile than recognizable. " He is next to its definition as a legend, legend, public lecture, a " religious and moral explanation of healing. Scripture and its application to life. ] ... [ In their creation they corresponded to the undisputed etymological terms, Sage ' and in an indefinite sense of the, word ', and gave himself merely as a simple expression of an established religion and morality in thought without making to validity and standardization claim. "

Leopold Zunz describes the Aggadah as " the product of the free access of the individual, while the Halacha the strict authority of the Authority which emanates schools and teachers of the law. " Aggada the other hand, is something as " passed proverbs in the people. "

Aggada (or Haggadah ) is not to be confused with the special Haggadah shel Pesach, which was often shortened simply called Haggadah and is. In the Passover Haggadah is also Aggadah (or Haggadah ), but only a special from the stock of traditional Jewish narratives. The Passover Haggadah tells of the exodus from Egypt and as such is the main component of the Seder.