Sifra

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Sifra is a classical rabbinic midrash on the Book of Leviticus that systematically expounds its legal (halakhic) passages.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf halakhic midrash
midrash halakha
rabbinic literature
tannaitic work
aimsTo expound legal passages of Leviticus
associatedWithSchool Rabbi Akiva
audience rabbinic scholars
basedOn Book of Leviticus
category Midrash
surface form: Midrashim on the Torah
citedIn Talmud
surface form: Babylonian Talmud

Talmud Yerushalmi
surface form: Jerusalem Talmud
commentaryOn priestly code in Leviticus
contains halakhic interpretations
hermeneutic principles
coversTopic holiness code
priestly regulations
purity laws
sacrificial laws
focusesOn halakhic exegesis
genre legal commentary
hasTitle Torat Kohanim
influenced later halakhic literature
inHalakhicCategory Torah-based law exegesis
language Hebrew
method derivation of laws from biblical verses
partOf corpus of tannaitic midrashim
period Tannaitic period
preservedIn medieval manuscripts
regionOfOrigin Eretz HaKodesh
surface form: Land of Israel
relatedWork Sifre Devarim
surface form: Sifre on Deuteronomy

Sifre Bamidbar
surface form: Sifre on Numbers
religiousFunction source for Jewish law
religiousTradition Judaism
scripturalScope Book of Leviticus
surface form: Leviticus
structureType systematic exposition
studiedIn yeshivot
timeOfComposition early centuries CE
traditionType oral Torah
transmittedAs rabbinic textual tradition
typeOfExegesis verse-by-verse legal exposition
usedBy Talmudic sages
usedFor interpretation of Levitical law
legal derivation in rabbinic courts
usedIn halakhic discourse

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