[Avodah] Only One Interpretation, The Right One - (Was Did RSRH write LH)

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 03:55:21PM -0500, T613K at aol.com wrote:
: I was not claiming that every medrash has to  "come from within the pesukim" 
: but a medrash usually answers some obvious  question in the pasuk or adds 
: information based on something that is at least  implied or suggested in the 
: pasuk...

All medrashim? I only see this in those cited by Rashi. To my mind,
Rashi's definition of peshat includes the anomolies in pesuqim that
can't be resolved through more precise translation.

The most common form for a medrash aggada is the pesichta. This is where
the medrash opens with another pasuq (most often Mishlei, if not one of
the sifrei Eme"s, if not Kesuvim, and sometimes navi). The driving force
behind the medrash is to show the relationship of the other pasuq to the
parashah. Not necessarily a problem (although a pesichta could resolve
an apparent setirah), and not particularly one within the chumash itself.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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