Midrash Halakha
Midrash halakha was the method used by the Jewish rabbinical sages to check the laws received by tradition, by identifying their sources in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible), and interpreting these passages as evidence of the authenticity of the law. longer usually refers to the interpretation of the Tanakh nonprofit legalistic, and includes other terms as synonymous .
The term midrash halakha is also applied to the derivation of new laws from the texts, whether by interpretation of the simple meaning of the verses, or by applying certain rules of hermeneutics , the most famous are the thirteen principles of Rabbi Ishmael.
Terminology
The term "Midrash Halakah" was used for the first time by Nachman Krochmal (in his commentary on the Guide of the Perplexed , the "ha-Moreh Nebuke Zeman," p. 163); expression Talmudic method was to describe the Midrash Torah "Investigation of the Torah. " These interpretations were often considered to correspond to the true meaning of Scripture, the "spirit of the verses" and therefore it was assumed that a correct elucidation of the Torah contained in it proof of halakha (here meaning restricted to "rule") and the reason for its existence.
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