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What Do Halakha, Aggadah, and Midrash Mean?
A plain-English orientation to legal reasoning, non-legal rabbinic teaching, and interpretive reading—plus why the categories sometimes overlap.
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What do halakha, aggadah, and midrash mean?
Halakha concerns Jewish legal practice, aggadah broadly covers non-legal rabbinic teaching, and midrash is interpretive engagement with scripture.
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