middah

English

Alternative forms

• midah

Noun

middah (plural middos)

1. (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.