Midrash va-Yekullu

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Midrash va-Yekullu (Hebrew: מדרש ויכלו‎) is one of the smaller midrashim, named after Gen. ii. 1 ("Wa-Yekullu ha-Shamayim"). It contained both halakic and haggadic material, and doubtless covered several books of the Pentateuch; but it now exists only in citations by various authors after the middle of the 12th century.

In Ha-Roḳeaḥ, §§ 192, 209, 320, and 324, passages from it are quoted as belonging to Gen. xix. 24, to the pericopes Beḥuḳḳotai and Beha'aloteka and to Deut. ii. 31. Judging from the first and fourth of these citations, the Midrash Wa-Yekullu was a homiletic one, since Tanḥuma on Gen. xix. and on Deut. ii. 31, as well as Deut. R. on the latter passage, likewise contains homilies. The midrash must have derived much material from the Tanḥuma-Yelammedenu, since some of the few fragments that have been preserved agree more or less accurately with passages from the Tanḥuma or with excerpts in Yalḳuṭ from Yelammedenu. The midrash seems also to have been called "Wayekullu Rabbah." The citations from it are collected in Grünhut's Sefer ha-Liḳḳuṭim, ii. 16b et seq.

Jewish Encyclopedia bibliography

Zunz, G. V. p. 281;
idem, G. S. iii. 252;
Rab Pe'alim, pp. 52 et seq.;
Grünhut, Sefer ha-Liḳḳuṭim, Introduction, pp. 13 et seq.

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Jewish Encyclopedia article for Smaller Midrashim

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