<div dir="ltr"><<<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The fact that the Alsheich does not quote his source does not mean that</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">he did not see one. I doubt he found this midrash on the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">internet...........</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I still maintain that we should call this thread "midrashim for which we</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">do not know the original source"</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">menucha>></span><div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">No one claims that the Alsheich made it up My claim was merely that it is a late medieval</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">relatively unknown set of midrashim. In this case the source is known (I am trying to locate it again</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I once had it).</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">My only statement was that for a relatively unknown (or one whose source we dont know) midrash</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">it has become very popular with many learning it in grade school and frequently quoted on the internet.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hence, my claim that there is no connection between the popularity of a midrash and the importance of the original.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">As an aside in line with the comment of Menucha many of the sources of the Rambam are no longer known.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">This of course does not imply that he didnt have a source.<br clear="all">
</font><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif">Eli Turkel</font></div>
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