330 Index
“leading words,” 191 – 92
lectionaries and lectionary cycles/practices,
15 – 27
legal rulings and traditions, 57, 59 – 60, 82,
88 – 89. See also halakhah and halakhot
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu, 212
Leon, Moshe ben Shem Tov de, 162
Leviticus: 1:5, 59; 1:10, 57 – 58; 5:5, 56 – 57; 11:33,
58 – 59; 15:2, 56; 16:1 – 34, 22; 16, 24; 16:29 34,
22; 17:3, 54 – 55; 17:8, 56; 17:10, 54 – 55; 17:13,
53, 55 – 56; 18:6, 56; 22:4, 55; 22:17 – 20, 55;
23:5 – 11, 275 – 76; 23:15, 275 – 76; 23:16 – 21,
275 – 76; 25:39 – 55, 272 – 73
Leviticus commentaries, 214 – 16
Lichtenstein, Aharon, 271
“Lifnei Aron Ha-sfarim,” 299
linguistics and grammar studies, 86, 93 – 94.
See also Hebrew language and grammar
listening, biblical, 132
literary devices, 54, 95, 111, 117, 191
literary exegesis, 87. See also biblical exegesis
liturgical poems. See piyyutim (liturgical
poems)
liturgy, 28 – 29, 29n9
logic, 81 – 82. See also rationalism and
rationalists
Lonely Man of Faith, 271
Lot (person), 20 – 21
Luria, Isaac, 169
“lyric” illumination, 190 – 94
Maggid of Miedzirec. See Dov Baer, the Great
Maggid of Miedzirec
magic, 158, 161, 168 – 70
Magog. See Gog and Magog
Maimonides, Moses (ben Maimon), 9 – 10,
123 – 38; on God, 129 – 30, 133 – 35; on
Hebrew language, 145; on morality, 129 –
30; on mysticism, 138n27; Nahmanides
and, 139 – 41, 148 – 50; on scripture and
exegesis, 128 – 36; on Torah, 124 – 35
Malbim. See Weiser, Meir Leibush
Marah, waters of, 132
markers. See hermeneutic markers
martyrdom. See national sacrifi ce
Masoretic text (MT), 249 – 52
Medad. See Eldad and Medad
Meir (rabbi), 43, 108 – 9
Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael (on Exodus), 48 –
49, 60; Neziqin §5, 50; Neziqin §16, 51
Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai (on
Exodus), 48 – 49
memorization and orality in midrash, 78n15
Menahem Nahum of Chernobyl, 174
Mendelssohn, Moses, 208
Men of the Great Assembly, 121n31
Messianic era and messianism, 82, 127 – 28
metadivine. See polytheism/polytheistic
worldview
metaphysics and physics, 130 – 32, 137n7
midrash and midrashic interpretations, 3,
32, 44, 103 – 4, 106 – 7, 109. See also aggadah
and aggadic interpretations; biblical ex-
egesis; approaches, 60, 92 – 93; classical, 84;
extra-scriptural traditions and, 58; legal,
48 – 50, 58; modern, 197, 282; relationships
among verses, 67 – 75; on scripture/scrip-
tural language, 64 – 76, 197 – 99; Talmud(s)
and, 65
midrash mekhonen (constitutive), 60
midrash somekh (supporting), 60
Mikra Le Yisra’el commentary series, 253
Milcah (person), 21
minayin (whence) legal rulings, 57
Miqra (reading), 80, 170 – 71. See also Tanakh;
Written Torah
miqraot gedolot [Rabbinic Bible], 142
mishem (in the name of ) a [sage], 53
Mishnah (m.), 3, 32, 90. See also Oral Torah;
Av o t 1, 42 – 43; Av o t 6, 120n20; Megillah 4:4,
27; Sotah 5:2, 59; Ye b a m o t h 8:3, 309; Yom a
8:9, 30n12
Mishnah Commentary [Maimonides], 131
Mishneh Torah, 123, 126 – 32, 137n5, 140
monotheism/monotheistic worldview,
245n25, 306 – 7. See also polytheism/
polytheistic worldview; Kaufmann’s view,
224 – 26, 236 – 40, 242; Maimonides’s view,
128
morality. See ethics and morality
Morgenstern, Julian, 217
Moses, 70 – 74, 97, 134, 206 – 7; Abraham’s
legacy and, 129, 132; author/editor of
Torah, 103, 117 – 18, 133 – 34, 144, 147, 228n4;
monotheism/monotheistic worldview and,
238, 242; role in revelation, 38 – 43, 158, 161,
175n4; Song at the Sea, 143
Moshe Hayyim Ephrayyim of Sudylkov. See
Ephrayyim, Moshe Hayyim
Mossinsohn, Yigal, 288 – 89
Mount Sinai. See revelation; Sinai and Sinai
narrative
Mr. Mani, 290
mudawwin (composer-compiler), 95 – 96
Muhammad, 96
Muslims. See Islam and Islamists