Midrash Eleh Ezkerah

Page from Midrash Eleh Ezkerah, Constantinople (?), 1620.

Midrash Eleh Ezkerah (Hebrew: אֵלֶּה אֶזְכְּרָה ʾĒlle ʾEzkərā) is an aggadic midrash, one of the smaller midrashim, which receives its name from the fact that a seliḥah for the Day of Atonement, which treats the same subject and begins with the words "ʾĒlle ʾEzkərā," recounts the execution of ten famous teachers in the time of the persecution by Hadrian. The same event is related in a very ancient source, Lamentations Rabbah, and also in Midrash Tehillim.[1]

  1. ^ On Lamentations 2:4, ed. S. Buber, p. 50b; compare also Midrash Tehillim on Psalms 9:13, ed. Buber, p. 44b

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