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