Midrash Leku Nerannena

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Midrash Leku Nerannena (Hebrew: מדרש לכו נרננה), is one of the smaller midrashim 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 Ḥanukkah.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

• A. Epstein, Ha-Ḥoḳer, i. 65 et seq.

External links

• Jewish Encyclopedia article for Smaller Midrashim

This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.