midrash

Ironically this is some sort of wordplay that Midrash experts love to use to circumvent outdated Talmud laws.

Sadly in the case of Abrahamic religions, the exegetic literature like Midrash and Tafsir muddy that which is clear.

The canonical discussions of just this issue through Torah, Midrash and Talmud, as well as later Rabbinic writings span literally volumes.

If Judaism is on your list, are you familiar with the Midrash or Siddur?

See The Babylonian Talmud (Bava Batra 15a-16b), Midrash Rabbah (Genesis Rabbah, Exodus Rabbah), Saadia Gaon's commentary on Job, even Maimonides.

Another metaphor one could use for this is hermeneutics or midrash, but that has religious associations which would lead to distracting objections, so I don't go there.

My intention is to distill all that commentary into a series of posts that can form sort of the case law, or midrash, or zoography, of the core topics around HN community.

Sefaria is my greatest example of that, since it tries not to be just a book reading app, but to visually show a graph of how text is related between translations, midrash and more commentary.

As many social systems evolve and optimize over time, Jewish Beit Midrash learning has evolved over millenia to be an effective educational tool, and I think (/hope/suspect) there's a lot which can be extracted from it and applied to other learning contexts.

If we look at historical context we can see that for example in judaism they have this midrash: "The Holy One said, open for me a door as big as a needle's eye and I will open for you a door through which may enter tents and camels." Sounds familiar?

The Jews who wrote Genesis aren't the Jews who wrote the Midrash.

I don’t know your background but the Midrash.

It's not that those things are critical, so much as that to identify and address the actual core beliefs in relevant ways requires a depth of knowledge which would also expose you to topics like the Didache, the Seer Stone, or the Midrash.