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midah
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middah
(
plural
middos
)
(
Judaism
)
A personal moral virtue, especially viewed separately from religious obligation.
2006
June 5, Jonathan K. Baker, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in
soc.culture.jewish.moderated
[1]
(
Usenet
):
Shaul Hamelech was halachically wrong to spare Agag, but his desire to do so arose from an authentic Jewish
middah
of rachamim.
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