Skip to content
Zakhor
IntersectionThématiqueIIᵉ siècle

The thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael

Create the Great Book with our AI

שלוש עשרה מידות שהתורה נדרשת בהן

Region: Terre d'Israël

Intersection register · custodian, not owner

The thirteen middot ("measures") of Rabbi Ishmael are the hermeneutical principles by which the Oral Law derives rulings from the written Torah. They include a fortiori reasoning (kal vachomer), verbal analogy (gezerah shavah) and inference from the general and the particular. Stated at the beginning of the Sifra, they are recited in the morning liturgy and underpin halakhic reasoning.

Great Book being written

This Great Book does not yet have published chapters. The chapters — each bearing its register, its epistemic status and its sources — will be added as editorial enrichment and assisted generation progress.

🔗 Cite / link this page

Copy any of these formats to cite this page or link to it.

Link

https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/thematiques/les-treize-regles-d-interpretation-de-rabbi-ishmael

HTML

<a href="https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/thematiques/les-treize-regles-d-interpretation-de-rabbi-ishmael">The thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael — Zakhor</a>

Citation

The thirteen hermeneutical rules of Rabbi Ishmael — Zakhor, https://zakhor.ai/en/grands-livres/thematiques/les-treize-regles-d-interpretation-de-rabbi-ishmael
← All thématiques