Resemblance of Yelamdenu
The stylistic manner of opening the discourse with a halakic question is so closely connected with the original Midrash Tanḥuma, however, that in consequence of the introductory formula ילמדנו רבינו ("May our teacher instruct us?"), with which the exordiums and hence the homilies began, the name "Yelamdenu" was also given to this Midrash. Even in early times some scholars concluded from the halakic exordiums in Debarim Rabbah that this Midrash was derived in large part from the Yelamdenu; as did Abraham ben Solomon Akra in his Kelale Midrash Rabbah, Venice, 1601.
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