Definitions for agada

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agada A·ga·da

Spelling: [Sephardic Hebrew ah-gah-dah, Ashkenazic Hebrew uh-

IPA: /Sephardic Hebrew ɑ gɑˈdɑ, Ashkenazic Hebrew əˈgɑ də/

Agada is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in agada (aaadg).

Definitions for agada

noun

1. Aggadah.
2. the nonlegal or narrative material, as parables, maxims, or anecdotes, in the Talmud and other rabbinical literature, serving either to illustrate the meaning or purpose of the law, custom, or Biblical passage being discussed or to introduce a different, unrelated topic.

Origin of agada

Hebrew haggādhāh, derivative of higgīdh to narrate; see Haggadah

Examples for agada

The first is called Halacha or legal decisions, and the second Agada or moral maxims and legends.

In another place the Agada quotes a proverb of its own: Never cast a stone into a well out of which thou hast drunk.

He was also well versed in philosophy, and composed a work to reconcile the Agada with the philosophical ideas of the time.

Sometimes the Agada occupies itself with the exposition of certain Biblical passages, which take the form of homilies.

Beautiful as the Agada is, and with all its profundity, it lacks breadth.

This kind of exposition of Scripture had a name, "Agada" or "HAgadah."

But, if the Agada is not to be believed in literally, it must be interpreted.

Esau is not the consummate villain that he is so frequently depicted as being in later Jewish Agada.

The ascetic literature bears unmistakable traces of having been influenced by the Halaka and the Agada.

The reader is often thrown into amazement by the depth of thought and the loftiness of feeling manifested in the Agada.