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The hebrew poet hayim nahman bialik and the renowned editor yehoshua hana ravnitzky, selected hundreds of texts from the talmud and midrashic literature and arranged them thematically, in order to provide their contemporaries with easy access to the national literary heritage of the jewish people. Book of legends sefer haaggadah pdf download download. Midrash from schocken books pdf the book of legends sefer haaggadah. Loosely translated as legends, aggadah includes the genres of biblical exegesis, stories about biblical characters, the lives of the.
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