Midrash Leku Nerannena (

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: מדרש לכו נרננה), is one of the

smaller midrashim A number of midrashim exist which are smaller in size, and generally later in date, than those dealt with in the articles Midrash Haggadah and Midrash Halakah. Despite their late date, some of these works preserve material from the Apocrypha and P ...

and is cited in the Maḥzor Vitry (§ 426, p. 334). A few fragments of the work are still preserved, from which the midrash appears to have been a homily ("pesiḳta") for the Feast of

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Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

* A. Epstein, Ha-Ḥoḳer, i. 65 et seq.

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